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Originally Posted by Clutch Munny

May I just say, once, for the record, that the use of the phrase "the left" in an American's mouth is usually unintelligible to me? (Nothing to do specifically with you, dantonac.)

I know it's supposed to be a context-relative designation, so there's no expectation that the left in one nation should much resemble the left in any other. But there's also supposed to be something contentful in there, too -- something recognizably leftish, surely. But few American contexts, in particular not the Democrat platform, hold enough that's recognizably leftish to warrant that term over any number of more accurate ones.

Amen, brother. Clinton would have been a Christian Democrat in Italy while I would have been off voting for the Socialists, or Radicals or possibly Ilona Staller's Radical splinter group, the Love Party.