Disgusted Voters Are Abandoning Both Parties
Extremism is destroying Dems and GOP equally.
Shortly after posting Shocking Social Decay In My Neighborhood a few weeks ago I received a lengthy and thoughtful message from a reader. He said he was a lifetime Democrat, but that he was now leaving the party. He had become disillusioned with the intolerance and intransigence that his beloved party has descended into and no longer felt it offered pragmatic solutions to our social problems.
A radical wing has emerged within the Democratic Party charging that America is morally corrupt and asserts that the only course is fundamental revision of institutions and values. Like their 1960’s Marxists predecessors they allow no dissent or discussion.
But that does not seem to be a popular position…
The more moderate wing of the party that focused on issues like abortion, gun control and poverty has been marginalized by the more rabidly vocal leftists, shifting the party away from its traditional base.
Now, suburban Democrats are leaving the party. The Associated Press is reporting that more than a million Democrats have registered with the Republican Party in just the last year.
The poster child of radical Democrats, Rep. Ilhan Omar, was shouted off the stage at a…