There are many reasons I am a liberal Democrat, but by far one of the biggest is that I see the Republican Party as the party of greed. And one of the most amazing things that has happened in my lifetime is the transformation of the Republican Party's image into one that was for the people, because it preached hatred of an evil government. Of course, now we find out that the government was considered evil by these freaks because it tried to put a stop on their greed.
How easily that sunny smile and aw shucks acting job of Ronald Reagan fooled the people into thinking the Republican Party was on their side, even though it destroyed the union movement, the manufacturing sector, and along with it a great deal of the middle class. How quickly the people seemed to forget that the Democratic Party gave them Social Security and Medicare, created anti-poverty programs, and rescued them from the Depression.
Democrats have not done as good a job in recent years as they once did in protecting the people, having been cowed by the supposed rightward tilt of the country. But now the mask has been stripped away and the people are seeing the GOP as Greedy old plutocrats, and liberalism might just make a comeback.
That would be another amazing thing.
