Where Have All The Liberals Gone? | Opening comments to the general public to ask a question, in sincerity: what changed the minds of society's former First Amendment advocates?

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For the Democrat rank and file, Party has replaced principles and convictions; and Democrat politicians were never really anything but self serving. However, circumstances made self service and liberalism appear to coincide in certain spheres.

One such circumstance was the Wall Street Crash, almost on the heels, relatively speaking, of the basement shooting of Tsar Nicholas and his family.

Another was the Great Migration, which forced Democrats, theretofore the Party of slavery, then of Jim Crow, to become the party of integration.

Another was the "industrial north," where Republicans had been in bed with the monied classes since the end of the Civil War, forcing Democrats to become the pro-union party, if they didn't want to be only a regional party.

And so on

But, those demographics are currently in flux. What happens when the game of musical chairs pauses significantly again, I don't know.

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The answer here is that the Liberals are sacrificing what they once claimed to stand for, because they are the Establishment now, and are trying to censor opposing views in a desperate attempt to cling on to power because their ideas are being tried and have come up very short.