What am I? Cunt, Dick, Loony or Insufferable?

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Excuse me but the right is trying to crush the middle class.

In the US I believe it is true. But don't forget in europe conservatives equal american democrats. I was talking about what both right and left should defend, not what they actually protect in practice. Any politician knows having a strong middle class benefits both left wing and right wing.

It does confuse me somewhat when I see Americans on here labelling democrats (so called liberals I guess) as 'far-left'.

I don't think any American has seen or encountered anything beyond the centre right, at least not in the last 50 years or so. As you say, general central right European politics is centred on the ground that the democrats occupy currently, at least by my reckoning.

I don't think the US electorate is really that familiar with socialism apart from what they saw/heard in the USSR or Cuba. God bless 'em.