So it is another midterm election year.   The party in power is not particularly popular with the voting public right now.   The other guy has been busily crafting alternatives into a platform for the people to use to judge their qualification for control.   Keep in mind that Democrat "positions" shift with the wind of popular opinion and the party is far too nuanced to be pinned down on any one particular issue.   The official party platform says nothing about how the party's representatives will vote all those months from now when they take office.   You cannot identify the party's positions by simply referring to a document.   You must examine their actual positions on the full range of issues.

The positions of the Democrat party are available to anyone with a computer and internet access - preferably broad-band since the words of party representatives are voluminous.   These positions include:

Fulfill the enemy's prophesies that Americans are weak, require instant gratification, and cannot handle the pressures of a drawn out conflict by removing troops from harm's way in Iraq, Iran and anywhere else they might encounter hostile individuals.   Immediately set a timetable and publish it so the enemy knows exactly when we will give up and go home.   Hopefully satisfy the public's concern over its military's casualties by making the efforts of those who have given their lives for the cause utterly meaningless by pulling up stakes before the job is completed or even finished to a degree which will cause permanent change.   Allow things to go back to the way they were before when our troops stationed anywhere were easy targets for the enemy and our public working in offices here at home needed to keep an eye out for planes being flown too low.

Don't try to expand democracy throughout the world because those people are just not ready for it.   Recognize that some people are just too backwards and poorly educated to vote on important issues.   Permit totalitarianism because some people need it.   Ignore the fact that these people need it because totalitarian regimes create the very dependence which limits the people's ability to engage in democracy.   Allow what is emphatically and deliberately prohibited from growing only to spring up naturally.

Interpret the US Constitution liberally because the founding fathers had no way of knowing how complex our society and technology might become.   Attempt to infer what the fathers would have said had they been alive today.   Empower the judiciary with the responsibility of carrying out this interpretative work on a "living, breathing Constitution."   Ignore what the founding fathers said in the document including specifically limiting the authority of the judiciary and creating a specific mechanism whereby the Constitution could change, Amendment.

Take everything from Socialism and Communism that is "good and pure" like socialized healthcare because it just isn't fair that actions have consequences - like not listening to everyone who tells you if you have sex, you're going to get pregnant and not finishing high school is the fastest way to poverty.   Ignore heavy burdens placed on successful people.   Avoid phrases like wealth redistribution and instead refer to creeping Socialism as simply taxing those who "have benefited most" from the system.

Roll back tax cuts on the "rich" folk like anyone married or owning their own home who can't even afford to send their children to college in order to increase governments ability to be the benevolent father who gives money to his adult children who didn't listen to his advice about staying in school, keeping one's nose clean, and working hard to get the things one wants.   Ignore the fact that tax cuts enriched the nation's treasury by spurring economic activity, creating jobs, and generally staving off recession.

Amend the centuries old institution of marriage to include homosexuals so they can enjoy the decades old right to be taxed as heavily as heterosexuals.   Permit same-sex couples to adopt children because some heterosexuals hit their kids or suffer other sorts of domestic violence.

Allow unrelated adults to obtain major surgical services for children without parental permission or notification in order to protect an "institution" created by racists who wanted to make sure poor people would curtail their procreation in order to prevent them from over-running the superior races.   Call it a "woman's right" of control over her own body and reproductive functions, and ignore a parent's right of control over their own minor children.

Open the borders for those poor, downtrodden Mexicans because their standard of living is below ours.   Don't make it a crime to break the nation's laws on immigration because we need cheap labor and the Mexicans are ready to provide it.   Instead permit anyone who would like to cross the border to do so regardless of their intentions or national origin.   Put simply, don't strengthen the nation's laws on immigration and don't do anything to enforce the ones already on the books.

Engender peace by relinquishing national sovereignty over the military to the corrupt, ineffectual United Nations.   Ignore the crimes the organization has committed in the name of international harmony like raping children where its "peacekeeping" forces are located or ignoring real human plights because on its inability to take any initiative or build any sort of consensus on any real issue of human rights.

Prohibit our government from listening in on phone calls like the ones originating from or ending in terrorist havens in the Middle East so the good folks at PETA can organize events to throw blood on fur coats and the ACLU can pass on information from incarcerated terrorists.   Claim civil rights to privacy in the name of handcuffing the executive branch at a time when real dangers can be averted and real terrorists can be brought to justice before they kill our innocent civilians.

All these real positions of the Democrat party are expressed daily in a variety of outlets and preserved for you on the internet.   Ignore them at your own and the nation's peril.   It is no fun to be attacked by a wild dog but you really don't want to be saved from it by a pride of lions.   The dog may kill you but the lions most assuredly will.