Democrats, RINOs, and liberal commentators are repeating ad nauseum on news shows that the Republican Party has become too extreme. Implicit in their remarks is that the Democratic Party has NOT.
I offer just one example of how far left the Democratic Party has moved in the last 25 years. Can you imagine any sitting Democratic senator having any truck with the late Sen. William Proxmire (D-WI) and his Golden Fleece Awards?:
Proxmire was famous for issuing his Golden Fleece Awards, which identified what he considered wasteful government spending, between 1975 and 1988. The first was awarded in 1975 to the National Science Foundation, for funding an $84,000 study on why people fall in love. Other Golden Fleece awards over the years were “awarded” to the Justice Department for conducting a study on why prisoners wanted to get out of jail, the National Institute of Mental Health to study a Peruvian brothel (“The researchers said they made repeated visits in the interests of accuracy,” reported the New York Times), and the Federal Aviation Administration, for studying “the physical measurements of 432 airline stewardesses, paying special attention to the ‘length of the buttocks.'”[1] Proxmire was successful in stopping numerous science and academic projects which were, in his opinion, of dubious value.
The Golden Fleece Awards ended with Proxmire’s retirement in 1989.
