2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: For those of you who are willing to vote against your selfish self interests, I feel sorry for you [View all]CajunBlazer
(5,648 posts)The departure of the Southern conservatives not only drove the Republican Party to the right, it also freed the Democratic Party from it's most conservative elements Consequently the Democratic Party has drifted to the left. If anything I suspect that your disappointment is probably centered on the fact that the Democratic Party never drifted as far to the left as you would have liked.
You know there are a lot of similarities between the most conservative and the most liberal elements of their respective parties. Both are extremes unwilling to compromise their principles, but most importantly, both want to pull their parties further to the right or left than is a agreeable to the people in the middle who decide every presidential election. Both fail to understand, or more likely both are unwilling to accept the fact that in order to be able to govern a Party most win elections and that requires having a moderate agenda than you are the Tea Partiers would like.