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If everyone but you agrees… …in this case, you simply need to expand your definition of “everyone”. Roughly everyone in the US is conditioned to see our tiny slice of the political spectrum this way, as you’re describing. Democrats left, Republicans right, the precise middle between them being…what? “Moderate”? US politics sits within several broader contexts - it is not some magical thing with the power to redefine global and historical political thought. We simply grew up thinking it’s mostly all there was and probably the ~best out of other worse sets of ideas. And all of us suffer for that, you help us all suffer for that, by simply accepting (defending!) the self-defeating idea that Democrats are as far left as one should go. While Republicans just sprint further right, without penalty. And complicit orgs like the New York Times “report” like everything is mostly normal, instead of a goddamn historic, violent assertion of all the worst fucking things that basically NO ONE agrees with, going on today. Okay. Democrats are left-wing. How?