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Originally Posted by Boreas
"The Left" in the US is completely without representation in the political arena.
John
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The biggest challenge that "the left" has in the political arena is that they can't be honest about who they are, generally speaking. I'd suggest that, on one hand, many of the CA House members are pretty far left. But, even in a left-leaning state like CA, if many of them were to come out publicly and proclaimed the aligned with the political "left", some of them would become unpopular in a hurry.
Over on the east coast, Markey or McGovern in MA don't publicly let their lefty freak flags fly, but their public positions on most issues wouldn't never be mistaken for the products of the Heritage Foundation.
On the other hand, here locally, if John Conyers came out publicly as a communist, no one would be surprised.
