As a liberal, I can tell you that the Democrats have been shifting to the right now for many years. I laugh when I hear Republicans talk about Democrats like Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid and say they are ultra leftists. I think the Republicans (and the whole mainstream political spectrum) have shifted to the right as well, so their idea of what "leftist" is has changed.

Your more liberal Democrats of today would not have even been considered that liberal in the 1960s and 1970s. On the other hand, the mainstream Democrats from the 1960s -- people like Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy -- would today find themselves politically aligned with the Green Party and would most likely not even be Democrats.

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