Demonizing of Republicans

It appears to me that the Democrat party has gone from trying to demonize the Republican party candidate to demonizing the Republican surrogates who speak their convictions and now they are portraying the people who say they are Republican voters as uneducated, ignorant, backward, bigoted and racist. Is it because the Democrat policies do not work and have not helped America to prosper as it should? Can they really run on their record? If not, they have no choice but to demonize. The divide has grown wider and we are a divided nation. It truly bothers me because we are all citizens of a great country and more importantly WE ARE NEIGHBORS and we care for each other. I wish that we could make all candidates talk about issues as well as honesty and ability. Americans, we are better than this rhetoric!