Remember when Democrats were more rational, at least in comparison to today’s Democrats? Senator Zell Miller was the last of the old Blue Dogs, having been both Governor of Georgia and a Senator from that State. New York’s Daniel Patrick Moynihan, while a committed liberal, was at least intelligent, well-spoken, and not subject to flights of fancy.
Whereas now, with what the modern Democrat Party considers its up-and-comers, there is a certain hysteria based on their damning everything counter to the “progressive” agenda as a threat to democracy.
When a handful of Democrats introduced a bill to impose a progressive wealth tax on millionaires and billionaires, they didn’t just say that income inequality was bad. They called it a threat to democracy. Apparently, anything and everything ...