As is the case with many of you, my parents faced many financial difficulties during the Great Depression of the 1930s — they called these days the “Hoover Days.”

When Franklin Roosevelt pulled the country out of this economic disaster, he was heralded as the political hero. Thereafter there seemed no other preference but to vote Democrat.

As I grew up I followed this tradition. I attended the local DFL caucus, compiled petitions, and went on to the local and state DFL conventions. At that time I believed the DFL was the voice of the farmer-laborer and the little guy.

Somewhere during the 1970s and 1980s, I became aware of a disturbing change in the DFL. The party was being taken over by liberals, extreme feminists, pro-abortionists, and gay and lesbian advocates. These extremists were getting their single-issue agenda into the state DFL platform, as well as that of the National Democratic Party.

The Party was not the same anymore. The agenda of the DFL was changing. It was no longer the party I grew up with. As a Democratic Party office holder or candidate, you are expected to follow and back the party platform.

It is the acceptance of these liberal issues that has promoted the breakdown of the social morality of our country. Sex and violence on TV, divorce rate and breakdown of the family, promotion and acceptance of abortion and same-sex marriage are a few examples of the deterioration of the social fabric of our country.

The harvest we reap is from the seed we sow. Today’s Democratic Party and its platform and candidates promote ideals and issues that are not in keeping with what the party originally stood for. I am concerned for this country and the society my grandchildren will live in. I cannot support or vote for these Democratic candidates and I don’t think my Democratic parents would either.