Reply #3: Mostly agree

[abq e streeter]

More emphasis on the betrayal by the spineless, sell-outs that I've watched most of the Democratic "leadership" become in the last 30 years has enabled the republicans to pollute our country to the extent they have ( which is basically what you're saying in the last sentence). The repubs couldn't have done it without the collaboration ( in the strictest WW2 sense of the word) and rolling over and playing dead by far too many Dems. But yes, I certainly agree about the republican party/cult...I wish this was an original line but it's something I saw here once: "To the Republicans; if you want to know how things got this ugly, just look in the mirror."