Agreed, the terms are not important, but the situations have grown and worsened over the last 50 years, the period of Democrat/Liberal pandering political control.
The point is the Democrats do not want them to go away, ever. That is their ‘base’ and it would be a disaster to their party if they were to disappear.
I use this line of logic whenever I bother to take the time to discuss it with a ‘liberal’, and they remark:
The Democrats are for the ‘poor’ and the Republicans are for the ‘rich’.
To which I usually reply:
Okay, let’s take that statement as being ‘True’.
What, then is the purpose of any political party?
Answer: To gain political power by increasing the number of people who agree with them and will vote for them.
Therefore, by your statement, the Democrats must gain power by increasing the number of ‘poor’, and the Republicans must increase the number of ‘rich’.
Now which party do you want to belong to? The one that wants to keep you poor or the one that wants to make you rich?....................
Your reply is brilliant in both wisdom and logic. Thank you for the help in my dealings with liberals.