I don't agree.  The way you see things now, it must feel like you're living in Sodom and Gomorrah.  Dems are not evil, just brain washed and manipulated.    I spent 30 years voting liberal.   I woke up when the entire dem party, save just a few, endorsed the most corrupt person in politics for president. I had a lot more time to sit and thin than most people.  I was fortunate to figure it out.  All my friends for 25 years were liberals and they are all very kind, caring people. I remember the old expression the road to hell can be paved with good intentions.  Liberals really think they are voting for the good guys. And they are easily manipulated by their values and desire for a just kind world.    My values and opinions were shaped at college through logic and justification. Take abortion for example. Abortion was sold to me and all my friends as a necessary evil that would lift women out of poverty and protect our economy form the weight of many unwanted unplanned for children whose families would end up on welfare. Unplanned for pregnancies were treated as inevitable. They sold us statistics on how many women and children who had unplanned or pregnancies ended up in abusive relationships and on welfare. Every child born put hem at greater risk. And the children would likely be abused. The other tool they used heavily was virtue signalling. If you are a good person you care about poor women and protect their right to have abortions that are their only chance to get out of poverty. In the University setting 25 years ago, there was a great deal of unity around what was virtuous. It was all about empowering women and saving them from their mistakes. I don't know how they do it today with so many couples hoping to adopt and wanting children.  Black children are still not as likely to be adopted even as infants. I'm sure they use those statistics. Abortion is largely an economic issue. A sign of the economic decline of our country. If for example every women who got pregnant at 17 knew that she would be able to feed her child and have a secure financial situation/help to raise the child abortion would be rare. There is no justification of abortion today! None! Unplanned pregnancy is no longer inevitable with better birth control and children are wanted by so many childless couples. I am not saying it was ever right or justified, but we were told it was. We were made to feel guilty that all of us came form middle class families and if we were in the situation of an unplanned pregnancy we would have help from our families but that poor people didn't have our privileged life and could not afford our morality. We were told we had to make laws that fit int their economy not ours.