Democrats need a new strategy

The working class had looked to the Democratic Party as the champion of workers' rights. It was the Democratic Party that led the charge for equal pay for equal work for minorities. In the early 1990s, the Republican Party devised a plan to label the Democrats as protectors of institutions the working class cannot in good conscience endorse. As a Christian Democrat, I still question my decision to vote John Kerry for president; however, I couldn't vote for deliberate liars.

The average American is God-fearing and of the working class. The Democratic Party abandoned the working class and dove headfirst into issues the working class cannot in good conscience support. The Republican Party seized the opportunity and won control of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Big business continues to downsize the middle class, and our borders are open to cheap import labor. Corporations are in a maniacal exodus to foreign labor markets.

The Democratic Party has abandoned the working class in America and the entire country is paying the price. Soldiers dying in Iraq are not from the elite class of society; they are from middle class and disadvantaged America.

If Democrats hope to restore American prominence, they must be more creative in their fight with Republicans. Class warfare has begun, yet there is only one class fighting.

I read an article describing how the elite has deployed combative thought providers such as Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Fox News. Democrats have allowed them to label the entire party as abortionists and supporters of gay rights. They have cleverly divided the electorate using issues that are neither Democratic nor Republican.

Gay rights and abortion are issues all America must address. They are both equal opportunities. They are not respecters of party.

Roy Ellis, Augusta