[cuban leaf]

It is not getting more liberal. It’s getting more leftist. True liberals and conservatives are not all that far apart. Leftists are loons.

This covers it well, and it IS what is happening to the democrats (the left is taking them over):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTZTbL0yPJc

[Buckeye McFrog]

True liberals and conservatives are not all that far apart.

That probably explains why, in my grandparents' day, there was not all of this acrimony between Republicans and Democrats. They could have rational debates about ideas, and each could live with the compromises.

Saul Alinsky destroyed all that IMHO.