the Democrat party of today is much further to the left than it was 40 years ago.. it’s just a no brainer fact and I think some unions like the pro American Teamsters have almost nothing in common with the America hating, tax raising, job losing, muzzie loving leftists who are the Democrat party of today.. there is NO WAY an avowed self described socialist could have run for President on the Democratic ticket 40 years ago let alone be leading in some of their polls for President.. no way.
Hubert Humphrey in 1968 was the last of the normal Democrats to run for the office of the presidency. He was a Leftist, but he was from the old school, still loving the nation. From McGovern on, hard core Leftists were the norm.
1972 George McGovern, 1976 Jimmy Carter, 1980 Jimmy Carter, 1984 Walter Mondale, 1988 Michael Dukakis, 1992 Bill Clinton, 1996 Bill Clinton, 2000 Albert Gore, 2004 John Kerry, 2008 Barack Obama, 2012 Barack Obama.
Every one of these people were hard core Leftists. Carter has traveled to the most socialist nations on the planet and cozied up to their dictators.
While the Democrat party of today is certainly worse than it was in 1972, that is still the time when the hard Left took over the party.
We can look back to our own party and see that Bush was the beginning of the end for our beliefs too. Is the party worse now than under Bush. Well sure, but he was the one who took us off the rails.
The candidates since Reagan have had no clue about Conservatism. Just because McCain was by far the worst nominee we’ve ever had, it still doesn’t mean that Bush was a good guy, or that the GOPe was solid even back then.
The majority Party Democrats from the early 70s are the ones who actually demanded Nixon call cease-fires every time we had North Vietnam on the ropes. The North would resupply and come back at us even harder due to Congress’ actions. The Left in those days called our troops war criminals. John Kerry testified before the Senate making that claim to cheering Democrats in that body.
You had Walter Cronkite declaring the North the victors in battles, which wasn’t true. The hard Left newspapers were propagandizing for the North.
Angela Davis, Dorn, Aires,... these people were all the rage back then. Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden, these were prominent Leftist of the day protesting in groups against the Republicans and doing their best to advocate for Communism inside our nation.
This is the time when capitalist concern across the nation came under file. Banks were burned down. Anti police terrorism was in full bloom. These folks were all spinoffs of the incredibly Leftist anti-war movement which McGovern was proud to represent.
That movement was hard Left into socialism.