The Democratic Party has problems, just like any large group of free people belonging to a collective without the ability to expell each other, but it's heads and shoulders above it's only serious rival, the Republican Party - which we'll refer to from hence forward as either 'The Doomsday Cult' or 'The Party of Cthulhu'. The Democratic Party is virtually identical to the American public at large, in it's position(s) on the war in Iraq, the most important issue of the day. The numerical statistical percentages are strikingly similar vis-a-vis troop re-deployments, phased pull-outs, re-focussing on diplomatic and political solutions, etc. etc. etc. The more general point is that very few Democrats are stupid enough to believe that "Dubya's Debacle in The Desert" is 'going well' or even 'salvageable' at this point. (There's Sen. Joe Lieberman and Sen. Hillary Clinton and that's about it.) Conversely, the GOP's Cthulhu worshippers still rank George W. Bush's handling of Iraq in the high 70s-80s in recent public opinion polled percentiles. <~ (That's what professional psychiatric doctors and mental health experts call "NuTz"!)

The Democratic Party is likely to grow in number and in political enfluence in the coming years, due to the fact that the GOP's Doomsday Cult of finger-waggers and crotchety old scolds is becoming less and less appealing to anyone less than 88 years of age, their stance on gay civil unions is identical to their stance on "mixed-race marriages" just a few decades ago, while most YOUNG (college age & younger) "Republicans" completely dissagree with this "bash those who are different" plank in the Cthulhu Death Cult Evangelical Party's Platform.

It's interesting to note that the architect of their 'gay-and-lesbian-bashing' strategy was an openly gay but very reclusive multi-millionaire named Arthur J. Finkelstein who got married to his male partner in John Kerry's home state, after bashing John Kerry politically for not opposing the Commonwealth's same-sex civil unions law more ferociously.

Although the Democratic Party will almost certainly grow in size to vastly outnumber their GOP conservative counterparts, the biggest danger they face is infiltration. As the Bushie-Cult's membership leaves the sinking ship that WAS their beloved Republican Party, they'll be looking for a new political home, because they are attracted to power. If the Democratic Party continues to allow itself to be dragged downward towards the DLC' control - a stealth Southern Christian Conservative's organization, if they stupidly embrace the GOP's horrid and disasterous social/political corporatized, Christiany agenda, the young Republicans may take over control of the old Republican Party and turn it into the new home for thinking, rational, "reality-based" liberals. If that happens, I'll burn my Democratic Party voter's card that I've had my entire adult life, upload the card-burning video to YouTube and I'll join the liberals in the revitalized Republican Party.