break down to pro-
@mimi
Labor or pro-Business. Or were, up to Bubba's admin.
Dems and Repubs have pretty much remained the same for the last 100 years, prolly since the Civil War. One difference being Southern Democrats which are pretty much the wolves in sheep clothing you talk about. And, weirdly, or not, the KKK from the early 1900s (or before) to the '60s was made up mostly of "Democrats," real or not. Then, prez LBJ signed a bunch of "Civil Rights" (pro-Negro in some eyes) legislation which rubbed southern KKK Democrats the wrong way. So they flipped to the Repub side of the aisle (where they always belonged anyway) and, as they say, the rest is history. And since a real Democrat hasn't won in the South since those '60s, Bubba decided (along with a few others) that the way to win back the South was to move the Dimocratic party to The Right. And we've all seen how well that has worked out. Instead of voting for fake Repubs (Dimocrats in sheeps clothing) southerners vote for real Repubs. Alas, Bubba's "cure" for the Dimocratic party's failures in The South has spread to all 50 states. So, here we are, 50-something years since LBJ freed The South trying to push back Bubba's "cure" before it kills the entire country. But all that said, the two parties still are, for the most part, pro-Labor and pro-Business. Except the Party of Bubba - NeoLibs - hate Labor, too. Go figure.

Weren't the Democrats once the real right-wing racists and the Republicans the "good guys"?

Then something happened and everything became the other way around. The Democrats were the "good guys" and the Republicans became the right-wing racists.

Now it happens again, right?

The "Good Democrats" support the right-wing bad guys and the "Bad Republicans" can claim they are the "Good Republicans" ?

I have forgotten how and why all of that "wolf in sheep-clothing changing their clothes" happened once and I am wondering if, what happens today, is another "change of clothes" for the wolf in the dressing room.

Ok, I give up. Sorry, you all may know what I don't. I think all of it happened before my mother was born and the rest before I was born... now I risk to die without ever having understood how that could happen. Darn.

@Snode but good things can be done in those areas. Especially good things can happen in places where TPTB aren't paying attention.

but if she is not a "favored" one, the d's will stick her on some low luster assignments, Veterans, Indian affairs... that neither party has any priority for. Come re-elction the DCCC still won't support her. Because they suck.