WTF is wrong with Democrats that want to cut Social Security and/or Medicare?

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245. Fourthed. I wonder how many of them were Reagan Democrats, or former Moderate Republicans?

On Daily Kos a few years ago, there was a similar display of Third Wayism from a number of people there. Their arguments were the same, stfu and vote basically.

Then one day someone posted a Bill O'Reilly video which airc, was somehow appealing to the Left, can't remember why, and that was followed by an invitation by one of the FPers (someone I always suspected of being a former Repub) to O'Reilly's audience to visit DK where they 'would be welcome'. He provided the information that he had been a Republican himself, lol, not a surprise to many of us. Then a flood of comments came from others stating that they too had once been Republicans.

So why did they leave the Repub Party? Mostly it seemed to have to do with the rabid religious right taking over the party, and the Clinton policies re Wall Street which made them feel there was room for them in the Dem Party.

And that would've been just fine, had they not then decided to take over the Party and mold it into Republican lite to suit their Conservative beliefs which basically never changed. But it sure explained the clashes many life-long Dems had had with them.