My lifespan is so short and the republicans so staunchly arrogant imo, I always took the change from common reference to a democratic party to be an insult like 'card carrying' liberals - since they were referring to communists. Republicans today are less democratic than ever.

The current return to another phase and form of McCarthyism has turned America against itself largely with the help of the internet. No longer will a single Robert R Murrow lead from a broadcast medium up a path to the truth.