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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: thames_sider who wrote (9932)1/27/2006 10:09:08 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 541489
 
I'm actually a little baffled that any politician mentioned so far can be described even as left-of-centre, still less far left.

I take your point.

I think that the parties identified as "far left" represent the core of the Democratic party in the US, which IMO is somewhat left of the center of the Democratic party just as the core of the Republican party is to the right of the center of the Republican party. And the center of the Democratic party is left of the US center and the center of the Democratic party is to the right of the US center. As if my centrifugal force.

If you use as a scale the range of "normal" US political thought and lop off the loonies, which is a more practical and useful scale, then the Democratic core would be at the far left of that scale and the Republican core at the far right. If you use a scale that includes the loonies, it may be more technically correct but it really doesn't tell you anything you need to know.
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