@gorillapaws In response to
“There really aren’t any middle-of-the-road, persuadable voters. They’re a myth. Independent doesn’t mean in between these two polar opposite forces and you bounce between them. For many it’s a label that indicates they don’t identify with a party (for a variety of reasons).
In my case, I think the DNC and RNC are nearly identical on the most important issues and neither represents my “moderate” viewpoints of returning to pre-Reagan economics, not borrowing trillions of dollars to finance wars in the Middle East with no stated victory conditions (indefinitely is it?), millions of lives ruined, giveaways to billionaires, abandoning unions, allowing mergers of corporations into even more powerful monsters, allowing health insurance and big pharma to dictate our healthcare policy at the cost of tens of thousands of lives every year, locking up millions of Americans for non-violent drug offenses. All of those policies are extreme to me. The way I see things, we have two extreme right wing parties in the US, one being run by an incompetent lunatic and the other represented by a corrupt sellout that’s going senile.
People have been fed so much propaganda that they actually believe there’s this large distance between them. I describe myself as a “moderate/independent” I think a lot of people think I’m an extreme leftist. I think that says more about them than it does about me.”
What makes a leftist or not is one’s support of radical ideas like:
Medicare for All
Free College
Unemployment Insurance Compensation higher than actual wages!
Mandated EVERYTHING!