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The liberal media refers to them as "Left Center," [1] however I think by most reasonable individuals' definition, they'd be considered "left wing". Regardless
by downandout 9y ago
The liberal media refers to them as "Left Center," [1] however I think by most reasonable individuals' definition, they'd be considered "left wing". Regardless, they are on the left side, as in, biased against the right.
[1] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/common-cause/ https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/common-cause/
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoSo "left center", as viewed by the liberal media, translated into "radical left wing" when viewed by, presumably, someone in the center? Sorry, I don't buy it. (And yes, I know full well that much of the media leans left, some rather strongly.) For what it's worth, Wikipedia says they have been identified as "liberal-leaning", but also as "nonpartisan". It also notes that they were founded by a Republican.
- asveikau 9y agoHmm, another American who doesn't realize the US basically has choices between center-right Democrats and hard-right Republicans...
- Mononokay 9y agoOr he's referring to them according to the relative position of them compared to other political ideologies in the place of relevance to his statement. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- asveikau 9y agoNo, this is a common thing by hard-right factions to phrase the center-rightists as a bunch of commies. There is no genuine left left, we have had a massive rightward shift over decades, and this only becomes more true over time. Witness that the "socialized" Obamacare is actually a repackaged version of a republican proposal from 1994.
- musage 9y agoRadical comes from radix which means root. The exact meaning of radical left-wing may be up to debate, but it doesn't mean "ever so slightly left of mainstream", downvotes or cuteness don't change that.