Since the country is very evenly split Rep vs. Dem. This is quite a disapointing view of the half the population.
Sure it is. I was trying to be a bit clever there, but really that is what the left stands for in this country.
A significant part of the population embraces abortion as a birth-control alternative, regards (or pretends to regard) homosexuality as normative, think guns are too dangerous to allow, are uncomfortable with the legacy of our Founding Fathers, think that Hollywood celebrities have a great deal of credibility, do not care for Christian "extremists", and believe that government's job is to take from the wealthy to help the poor.
Now of course this does not mean that half of America is full-on haters of all that is good. People have different degrees of comfort with the above philosophies. Some people are fooled completely by a few choice demogagic phrases, and would shocked and indignant that the Democrats they voted for hold to the above. These are generally "old-school" elderly Democrats who have voted one way since Roosevelt, and somehow missed the whole New Left thing. These people are passing on or are voting Republican, though.