(December 26, 2016 at 4:41 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: The US seems to not have a left wing as such when you compare it to the left elsewhere. The Democrats seem to be to the right of the tories over here who are considered right wing. I don't know why but American politics seems to have been drifting to the right for years.
America never had a political organised left to speak of. The difference being that the right has moved to the extreme right. People like Eisenhower, Nixon even, Reagan or Bush Father, weren't extremists. Todays republicans are - at least in a large part.
Bernie would be the classical social democrat by European standards. Obama a conservative.