I think you missed my point entirely. I agree that the American left is not liberal; however, they are very much still the left. Your argument is basically, "w

I think you missed my point entirely. I agree that the American left is not liberal; however, they are very much still the left. Your argument is basically, "well, these people are doing some shitty things and therefore they must be on the right, because only the right does shitty things". Give me a break. If you want an "ism" which matches up most closely with the concept of "the left", you're looking for statism. And the American left is very, very much statist; they just also happen to be capitalist too. I agree that statism and true liberalism are largely opposed; however, a few decades back, the American left was somehow also very liberal. At the time, there were many influential statist visions of liberalism which were quite popular (your "New Left" link exemplifies this perfectly). So my earlier comment could be restated as pointing out that what's happening today is that people have become disillusioned with the oil-and-water mixture of statism and liberalism, and thus the true liberal elements have moved away from the left. The result is a kind of coalition between the old right and the departing liberals. But all of that was more-or-less irrelevant to explain the link. And, uh, I'm not sure what your link has to do with anything.