The Dems owe a great deal to their mentor, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, and the precepts of dialectical materialism. More than anything, they have adopted Lenin's signal assertion:
"Everything is political!"
This charge, of course, places the political agenda ahead of all other considerations -- be they economic, social, scientific, educational, military or whatever. In my view, the leftists' politicization of every aspect of human life and affairs is their most perverse contribution.
By asserting that "everything is political", they have poisoned everything...