Cruz is quite correct. Calling the current Democrats “liberals” or “activists” is inaccurate, because they are “radicals” and “agitators”.
The changeover of the Democrat party began in 1968 at their national convention. Their “liberal” wing was inside, controlling the process, and their “radical” wing was outside, rioting in the street. Chicago Mayor Daley backed the “liberal” wing, so he ordered his police to attack the radicals.
Growing in strength, and aided by both the unpopularity of the Vietnam War and Watergate, the radicals were finally able to take over the Democrat party in 1972, and purge the remaining “liberals” and “moderates” from their leadership positions.
The immediately petitioned their allies in the media to no longer call them “radicals” or “agitators”, but to instead call them “liberals” and “activists.” For a long time, even the word “liberal” was so despised by the public that the Democrats stopped using it as a self descriptor.
Since then, the Democrat party has exclusively backed the radical agenda, using their tools of hate, anger, and agitation to advance it. They have purged the last vestiges of the liberals and moderates from the party, to make it a lock-step organization, subdivided only by its big city machine factions.
In practice, its behavior is little different from an organized crime syndicate, with various “Capos” vying with each other to become the godfather.
Well said.
It’s extraordinary that we, as a country and culture have allowed this cancer to grow within virtually every public institution.
The foundations of this radical cancer seem to have been built over the years and have advanced on multiple fronts. Each front slowly gaining footholds that allow another front to advance.
In the early phase it was “anti-government”, anti-establishment” and the promotion of a “counter culture”. Now, they are the Government, the establishment and the culture.
Extraordinary.