A rant I agree with

I couldn't have written this better myself. A h/t goes to DetroitPatriotette for turning me on to the post.

I've always wondered what happened to the Humphrey wing of the Democrat party. Look at FDR - he came up with much of what's considered "big government" today, but he wasn't afraid to prosecute a war to protect our shores when we were attacked. Many of today's leftist Democrats make Pat Buchanan look like a member of the Council of Foreign Relations.

Reagan Democrats split away when the Humphrey wing of the party was frozen out of the power structure, and the prevailing mood of the Democrat apparatchik became that of being pro-abortion, anti-gun, anti-military, and anti-God. The Democrats have continued on that course for the last quarter of a century, and it seems to me that the alternative they present is solely to have the federal government do whatever President Bush and the GOP doesn't want done.

To me, the country really hasn't moved rightward - the political parties have simply moved leftward and out of touch with the will of the people. Americans still want what they've wanted for 200+ years, but few in either party seem to be willing to sacrifice their political power and cede it the the people to allow these things to happen.