The Democrats being talked about when he grew up left that party when they nominated George McGovern to be their Presidential Candidate who ran against Richard Nixon and lost every State except his own (Minnesota). He might have carried Mass., but I can’t remember.
True democrats have gone the way of the dinosaur. Nothing but fascists exist on the left side of the aisle these days.
“They were a victim of the union busting Right Wing Extremists we hear so much about?” Probably what the RATS will say.
The democrat party has been hijacked by marxists. Inch by inch they have indocrinated once loyal Americans and taken control of their minds.
They hold the same value as cholera, HIV, locusts, fleas, ticks and mosquitoes.
Plenty of lefties are talking about primary-ing Obama. But “traditional” Democrats? There aren’t any...that horse left the barn in ‘72, after kicking the doors open in ‘68.
Honestly, modern-day RINOs are probably the closest thing we have to old-school Democrats - folks with semi - traditional values who nonetheless believe the Federal government has an important role to play in ameliorating social problems.
I’m NOT saying they’re correct.
You can find a lot of them in the tea parties.
The democrats have always had elements of socialism and fascism throughout the entire history of their party. Woodrow Wilson and then FDR are perfect examples. The KKK is also another prime example. The democrat love for unions is aligned with these socialist and fascist tendencies.
The main difference we are seeing in regards to the democrat party of today has to do with their complete and utter contempt for traditional values. This was ingrained into their parties soul during the sixties counter culture movement. There is no longer any check on the socialist or fascists in their party or on the perverts or the corruption being that the democrat party no longer believes in morality at all. For them morality is relative and good and bad morals must be treated equally.
It is extremely sad what has become of the democrat party being that their complete corruption effects us all and tarnishes our nation.
I will also add this though it is just speculation on my part. Many of actions of the democrat party today lead me to believe that they seek the destruction of this nation possibly in order to do away with the Constitution. The history of the democrat party has always been a history of their war with the Constitution from the Confederate democrats to the Progressive democrats. While so much may seem to just be spontaneous, it may be that there is a backroom plan by democrats to destroy this nation from within and do away with the Constitution.
“Where are the true democrats that are sick of their party being hi-jacked?”
I think they call themselves independents now.
When Zell Miller retired, he turned out the lights on that party. There were no others even close.
The DemocRAT party allowed themselves to be hijacked beginning in the Sixties, but I maintain it was further back than that, when they hopped into bed with the communists.
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Democracy is the road to socialism. -Karl Marx
Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. -V.I. Lenin
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism .-Karl Marx
My late father grew up in Deming, NM. He often told the story that he was into his mid-twenties before he learned the two parties were not “Democrat” and “Damned Republicans”!
Working democrats lost the war of politics over principle. There are no factions allowed anymore. One is a dhimmicrat or he is something else.
When I talk to leftists I can see the defeat in their eyes. Many of them cringe at the imagery of what they’ve become. They hate the insanity of their party acolytes and their outright thuggish behavior.
But practically to a person they (reluctantly) mulishly continue to support the party with their vote.
Dems sure aren't what they used to be... they've become the party of liars and fakes... the party of dirty tricksters who rationalize by saying 'everyone does it'. They don't. It's sad, isn't it?
They’re suffocating on sex toys.
They left the party in 1980 and the ones that were left were all of those other folks.
They left the party in 1980 and the ones that were left were all of those other folks.