“I can’t believe there aren’t a incredible number of Democrats who are unhappy with things in their party these days.”
Any Democrat who was reasonably intelligent and had any love for the truth left the party long ago. The ones who are left are either going along for the benefits of one kind or another or they are just too disconnected from reality to comprehend what is going on and there are a lot of the latter.
There are some Democrats who remain registered that way, but vote for Republicans. It’s a family thing.
George Putnam in Los Angeles was that way. He railed on the Democrats and Leftists non-stop, but he remained a Democrat out of loyalty to the old days.
Frankly, I could never have become a Democrat at any point in history I can think of.