What I've found with most of the partisan sites, including the one you posted, is that they generally let you know only part of the truth, the parts that support their bias.  What they say may be factually correct, but hardly ever the full story.  Ex.  How many blacks were lifted the middle class through affirmative action, including men like Colin Powel.  How many children didn't starve because of poverty programs.   I'm not ignoring the dismal failure of leadership in some cities, but it's not the whole story.  

What partisan writing leaves out is more telling, than what they put in the article.     

*Being an ex Democrat, I can tell you that I become an independent after I started looking at the Democratic party with the same critical eye I used for Republicans.  There's a list of party policy that disappoints.   

In fairness, Republicans are even weaker in most of the areas's that are important to me.   That doesn't let Democrats off the hook.  

It's bad policy vs no policy.