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> Well, for Europeans (and I'd guess Canadians, Latin Americans, etc.) there is a line, and the Dems never cut it. This is overly simplistic. For instance, the

• coldtea 4y ago
  Those are plain old shared with bourgeois / social democracy concerns, not specifically left concerns (left is about class issues, and focuses on the economic substrate and equality, which is sees as more fundamental and where all others are mere derivatory or pale in importnace. Marx even considered these kind of things "bourgeois rights" and somewhat dismissed them. In any case, it's not like the right is against "accessibility for the disabled". Similarly, same-sex marriage is not about left vs right but about progressive/liberal (in the in favor of invididual rights sense) vs concervative. An anarcho-capitalist can be all about same-sex marriage without being left (the opposite), where even communists were known to be socially conservative in several cases, or pioneering such rights in others.