2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: U.S Socialist Party: Bernie a warmonger, imperialist, pro-apartheid, status quo [View all]whatthehey
(3,660 posts)Just because the real loony left calls you too right for them does not make you a centrist, nor anyone to your right a conservative.
12% of the nation thinks Obama is too far to the right. There is no sane definition of the words "centrist", let alone "right" which puts them at the 13th percentile of the political spectrum. But when you are at that 13th percentile, or heck somewhere around the 8th or 9th if we want to guestimate Sanders,, you sure as hell look like a right winger to those in the first few percentiles. I'm sure I look very tall to 5 year olds (and very short to NBA centers), whereas people with normal perspective see me as average in height.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2013/12/20/cnn-poll-shows-1-in-5-who-disapprove-of-obama-think-hes-too-conservative-n1766679