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In reply to the discussion: As a member of what has become known as the "far left" those who attack me here don't anger me [View all]beerandjesus
(1,301 posts)There's nothing conservative about the massive social and economic upheaval Republicans advocate on a daily basis. What they propose is nothing short of radical.
The idea that we should preserve and protect what previous generations of Americans have built is fundamentally conservative--whether we're talking Social Security, voting rights, public infrastructure, or restraints on the super-wealthy.
For those of us on the supposed "far left", probably 80% of what we advocate is actually abandoning the failures of the past 30 years and looking to what worked in FDR's time... how is that NOT conservative?
Show me a "Democrat" using the term "far-left" as an insult, and I'll show you someone who, in going along with the Republicans, is probably advocating more radicalism than I am..... and I say this as one who is happy to claim the term "far left" as my own!