Of course the left is on a spectrum and involves all sorts of combinations of ideas. The definitions are arbitrary, but the correlation of ideas is strong. In one poll I saw, it showed 20% of the population is liberal. They divded it in two sections. Left 15% and hard left 5%.
They color coded it blue and dark blue-lol.
That is as good a definition as any I think.
The liberals are the best thinkers, IMO, because we discuss ideas among ourselves. We work on problems together.
At my family dinners we are both shouting and laughing simultaneously, but always arguing ideas, everyone, e.g. my goody two shoes daughter once said: "don't blame me I wanted Hillary".
We are all pretty hard left Noam Chomsky liberals. But we also move right from time to time. Liberals aren't easy to pigeon hole, as you state.
<<I said it was relative. And of course there are other standards in the world- there are still communist countries. The only standard that matters to me is the one that fits this country, now. And we have a hard left and right- it's different from Canada's, or Chile's, or Egypt's- because we are Amercans. How they define the political spectrum in Italy (for example) doesn't seem to matter much. Can you explain why I have had to argue this? Because it seems weirdly out of touch, to me, that people would be unable to agree we have a spectrum in this country on the right AND left. Is this what we've come to? Denying reality by debasing definitions? |
