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In reply to the discussion: This is what a REAL Democrat sounds like. [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)traditional Democrats like those who voted for Truman, Kennedy and LBJ. They were not even liberal, just plain ole Democrats. Then New Democrats came on the scene and tried to make us believe a load of bad things about Democratic voters of the Greatest Generation. Well, of course, they didn't put it that exactly way. But, you know what I mean.
What Joe McCarthy left unfinished has been far exceeded--and simply by persistently conflating words like "Democrat" "liberal" and "far left." And people wonder why Frank Lunz is so rich and why I post dictionary definitions on this site.
Of course, common usage changes dictionaries too. So, in a few years, even that won't serve to surface how they're transforming reality. Sigh.
Winton Smith, where are you, now that we really need you?