Right, I'm aware of that, but many Americans' aversion to the left stems precisely from drummed up rhetoric about the left being "big government" "socialists" a

Right, I'm aware of that, but many Americans' aversion to the left stems precisely from drummed up rhetoric about the left being "big government" "socialists" and "communists" that want to rob them of their freedoms. The choice these days is really between big government, isolationist, police state with hyper-capitalism (right), and big government, globalism, with milquetoast socialism.