What the hell is with the patronizing tone, Freep, as if I don't know who composes the Democratic party. Nothing I said disagrees with what you said. So I have the ask why you felt the need to bring this up as if I did? 
All I said was, the Democrats made the decision to jettison any conservatives they had and embrace the new left in the 1960's. That is why conservatives rallied to the lesser of two evils, the Republicans, creating the ideologically divided situation you have now. None of that is inconsistent with what you said. You just focus more on justifying that choice, which was irrelevant to the topic I was discussing, which concerned the GOP.
The Democrats didn't embrace the new left considering that Hubert Humphrey won the party nomination in 1968 and only George McGovern has been the lone new left candidate that became the Barry Goldwater of the Democratic party/left. The Republicans hadn't been keen to the new right that help Goldwater elected. Both new wings of "left" and "right" were shunned by both parties. The difference is that Goldwater is embraced by the party today where Democrats run away when Georgy is brought up.
