What Happened to the Democrats?

I've been reading up on my American history, and it really seems like the democrats (founded by Thomas Jefferson, if I'm not mistaken) were THE pro-liberty party of the time, no?

What happened to them that turned them into the big-government loving fascists/socialists that we see today?

Discuss.

>>3
As >>6 said, your understanding of politics is entirely fucked.  Here are a few links that might help pull you out of the dark: 

http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html
http://www.quiz2d.com/
http://www.politicalcompass.org/