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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (21300)6/19/2006 1:05:25 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 541404
 
Certainly Bill Clinton isn't to the extreme left in American politics. I'm not sure I would say that Carville is either but he is at least to the left. The point with Carville is not as much the ideology, but the fact that he is extremely partisan and can be very nasty. Dean is also on the left of American politics, but perhaps not extreme left.

The definitional question is not just what types of policies and ideas, and statements you associate with left, right, and center, but how far away from the center you have to be to be considered extreme. Do you have to be like Pol Pot or Kim Jong Il to be extreme left, or will Micheal Moore, or Bernie Sanders be far enough? Of course the same question with different figures could be asked about the right. Or are you only considering major figures within each of the main two parties, perhaps only elected national politicians within each of the two parties? If so you don't have to go as far to be "extreme".
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