I'm a middle democrat and I understand the push and pull of conservative vs progressive. A progressive train without brakes will kill you and a conservative train that never goes anywhere stagnates a country to death. A reasonable person sees the need for both parties. Most of us fall in the middle.Look how arrogant the liberal pigs in this thread are. They refuse to accept that the Dem. party's massive hatemongering, violence against innocents, fanatically self-hating Americans, treason, etc., just might be repulsive and objectionable to the more moderate Democrats. These liberal pigs are so bereft of self-awareness, they actually think EVERYONE agrees with their fanatical, self-hating-American bloodthirst.
Years ago, while young and idealistic and naive, I used to be a Democrat myself. After seeing their recent "work" I wouldn't vote for that bloodthirsty, treasonous, party of animals again if I lived enough billions of years to see the sun's red giant stage.
I rather like America. I enjoy the free speech, the infrastructure. The military protection. The theory anyway of justice via due process & law. She needs universal healthcare, better industry, green energy and so on. This is how middle voters think. I'm still a democrat, hovering around the centerline with moderate republicans. It's a nice atmosphere. Y'all should come on in and stay awhile. But beware, in our meeting halls we still have the gents room just for gents and the ladies room just for ladies. Sorry, that's how sane and normal people think.
I'm fairly close to the political center myself, a bit to the Right. One of those rare pro-abortion Republicans. Nobody said America is a perfect society (such a thing does not exist among us imperfect humans), but I'm grateful to this country for giving us a modern, 1st-world comfy life and this country has made a lot of historically remarkable accomplishments which should be looked at with pride.