There’s certainly a large element of truth in what you say - after all, this love of (the idea of) Communism and Socialism that we see among so many of our youth didn’t just spring up out of nowhere - it’s rotten seed was planted in our soil at least 100 years ago (I date the decline of this country as beginning no later than the Wilson Admistration - he was the first out-and-out “Progressive,” though TR was somewhat of one himself before that). But when I refer to Democrats in general, I’m usually speaking of the rank and file of the Party, not those at the top. I also don’t think that Truman, Kennedy, Scoop Jackson, Sam Nunn and a host of Dems from the 50s-70s were anything like the current crew, not even deep down in their hearts.
I agree.