My dad had been a lifelong Democrat who refused to vote for them the last many decades of his life. He said frequently that he never left the party, they had left him. He also said the last few years of his life that he felt JFK wouldn't have been welcome in the party anymore.

Myself, I can remember when the left was more rational than many on the right appear today. Remembering the days when the senate appeared to be the voice of reason regardless of party lines.

The times have changed for sure, as the scripts they are handed are meant to entertain and distract as they act against us in an unified manner. Despite the rhetoric their particular scripts suggest is what they intend.