<![CDATA[Long-time readers of PJ Media know that I am a former Democrat, back from what we now view through the mists of time as an era when people who leaned left were known as “liberals.” Yes, I was raised with all of the accoutrements that came with a Leftist upbringing, but there were plenty of Democrats out there who were not raised with Peter, Paul, and Mary and the notion that the first thing a young man had to do on his 18th birthday was burn his draft card, if he did not register as a conscientious objector. ]]>