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Big ones I can think of off the top of my head: Immigration, tax, gun control, abortion, all modern "social justice" issues.

But my point isn't that they're "far left", just that they are reliably left of american center. They make no (or at least almost no) effort to present the center-right versions of the argument.




> immigration

It is easy to understand how the degrading position of the English workers, engendered by our modern history, and its immediate consequences, has been still more degraded by the presence of Irish competition ~ Friedrich Engels

> gun control

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary ~ Karl Marx

> all modern "social justice" issues

None of those are left wing. They're all liberal, which is a counter model to leftism.

> They make no (or at least almost no) effort to present the center-right versions of the argument.

They almost exclusively present the liberal argument, which is the center right.


Do we have to get into a semantic debate about what left and right really mean every time? You know exactly what they mean.


I'm sorry I don't like my beliefs being misrepresented and twisted into something I'm actively against?


The label you use to describe your beliefs is the same label that everyone else uses to describe a different set of beliefs, which you at least partially disagree with. We all know it and don't need to go over it every time.


Tax? You serious, Clark?




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