The problem is their thinking. They believe in a world without clear moral rules and one that is run totally by the government. I believe that democrats from 40 years ago would be embarrassed by what their party has become. A special interest party where they are afraid to stand for what they really are because they know they couldn't win.
I believe that democrats from 40 years ago would be embarrassed by what their party has become.<<<<<<<<<
Read Zell Miller's book, A National Party No More, and you will know what the democrats from 40 years ago think. It is rivetting and absolutely right.
Very true. I see them not so much as a party but as a conglomerate of special interest groups with little or no synergy. Their interest groups are of a particular variety - the thing they have in common is that they're all sponges feeding at the government troughs. There they partake of money or special treatment or newly fabricated rights. None of their interest groups are people that, in JFK's words, "...do for their country".
The party positions are defined by polling the various groups to see what they should fill the troughs with.