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I would dispute that Hillary is a left candidate whatsoever - she is a centrist, hawkish free-market neoliberal.

• leereeves 9y ago
  Opinions differ on the meaning of left/right. Europeans would probably consider her centrist or right-wing. Californians too, perhaps. But by American standards, her platform was well left of the average politician. (Though I suspect, had she been elected, she would have ignored the platform and governed as a corporatist.)
  • mbillie1 9y ago
    > But by American standards, her platform was well left of the average politician. Again, only if you entirely discount her economic positions, which are the core positions of any "left" figure. You're free to paint with however wide a brush you wish, and your other comments in this thread leave little doubt that you'll retain your opinion regardless of how this exchange turns out. But simply because the Democratic party is the "more PC" corporate capitalist party, and the Republican party is the "less PC", does not mean that either of them represents anything remotely resembling economic left interests.
    • leereeves 9y ago
      I think you have a skewed idea of the American political spectrum, but everyone is free to define left/right however they wish, so we'll have to agree that we disagree about their meanings.