I agree wholeheartedly with your assertion that "calling a populist movement with millions of supporters, terrorists is very short sighted". I do, though, flin

I agree wholeheartedly with your assertion that "calling a populist movement with millions of supporters, terrorists is very short sighted". I do, though, flinch at your use of language when you refer in the second paragraph to "the left", as if it is some rigidly defined thing or set of attitudes. That seems to me like a set-up for binary politics; an us or them thing. My active involvement with political things has always been issue-based, often to do with local affairs - roads, planning, preservation or redevelopment of areas/historic buildings. These things have never been, at local level, "left or right", and I have found such labels, especially when applied before the subjects have been discussed/examined, to be unhelpful. FWIW, I prefer issues to be debated on merit, rather than their labelling broadly as left or right, and this is largely because of experience of such debates at the local level - where it really does matter to people. edited for a typo - correcting "beenn" to "beem". More may follow.