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Congratulations on leaving the Dems. Better late than never. My own evolution was a thirty year process starting with reading Solzhenitsyn's Gulag trilogy and finally being pushed over the fence by Clinton. But the Dems are also not the same party they were forty years ago. Until Carter, most Dems prez candidates tried to out-hawk the Republicans. Abortion, Gay rights, and food-nazism weren't even on the table. I firmly believe many Dems, like my parents, still think that their party is the party that looks out for the common man and cares for the underdog. They simply do not understand how far left their party has tilted.

And many more realize it, but don't have the courage of their convictions to change. My 83 year old father is a devout Catholic, pro-life, pro-gun, anti-affirmative action, pro-military (he's an ex-Army drill sergeant), pro-death penalty, and even anti-union. But he votes for Dems every election. I've told him he must think FDR is still the president.

"Dems, like my parents, still think that their party is the party that looks out for the common man and cares for the underdog."

Many people certainly do think that way. It is probably worth noting that most liberals explain their sympathy for leftist politics and "social justice" (aka "socialism," IMO) exactly the same way.

They don't quite get the point that when government begins to take responsibility for your life, they also begin to take control of your life. Once government and bureaucracy are able to make arbitrary decisions about the lives of their subjects, which they do in their pursuit of social engineering, the day approaches when government and bureaucracy have unlimited power.