Whatever happened to the Democrats?

Sam Smith – The thing I don’t understand about our current politics is not what’s wrong with Donald Trump, but why the Democrats are so pathetic dealing with him.

For example, over the past 90 years we have had Democratic leaders like FDR and Lyndon Johnson who poured out good legislation, while the most significant GOP presidents have been Herbert Hoover, Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan. Nearly all the positive bills has been produced by Democrats.

I suspect that part of the problem is that we don’t pay much attention to history Further, America has decayed from a time when it was seen as the decent leader of the world.

One indication of the change in our national perspective is the recent rise of “socialism” as a presumably positive term. Democrats traditionally avoided that word and little of what they accomplished was labelled with it. My father was on the staff of the New Deal and  he never mentioned socialism. Until recently the positive changes were credited to liberalism. Now,  the Democratic Socialists of America, for example, has more than 250 offices in 40 states.

Although I have no problem with socialistic legislation if it improves life, but in America it should be credited instead to the Democratic Party tradition.  Trump has destroyed the Republican Party and he should not be allowed to kill the Democrats as well.