[Lazamataz]

To ask the question is to answer it. Decent respect requires virtue on the part of the person who expresses it. Today's Leftists eschew all virtue, even while many of their forbears did not; that is why they so frequently lie without regret.

Of course. I'm surprised I missed it.

George McGovern was a man of a different, and a better generation. I agreed with him about almost nothing, but always respected his common decency, his bravery in war and his love of his family. RIP.

Agreed.

Did the honor-bound Democrat of years past NOT know where the party was headed? Could they have been that blind?

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Did the honor-bound Democrat of years past NOT know where the party was headed? Could they have been that blind?

No, and that's why so many Democrat politicians of McGovern's generation either became Republicans or independents over time, especially in the south.

It has become a commonplace to say the JFK would not today recognize his party, and I believe that is true. But among those who survived the 60s and 70s were many who saw the writing on the wall, as liberalism increasingly gave way to the current brand of secular, amoral, puerile and grievance-based radicalism that dominates today's Democrat party.