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Mr Puggsly said:
VGPolyglot said:

No, the Democrats are not left wing. It's not semantics. They try to censor mentions of socialism:

 

They also explicitely mention that they're capitalists:

 

Democrats are much closer to Republicans than to leftists.

If anything I think democrats try to have it both ways.

Pushing left wing agendas while pretending to be in the center because they aren't commies. Although, people like Bernie and his supporters seem to be sympathetic or even open to communism.

Basically, left wing is the catch all term for more socialism, communism, big governement, etc. Not just the extreme.

Bernie Sanders supporters don't even know what socialism is, they think it's the same thing as social democracy. The Democrats aren't socialist, and they aren't communist, so the only one of the three left is big government, which does not make something leftist. Unless you also consider Republicans as left wing, because they are enlarging the military, increasing border security, and their president wants more "law and order" by having more policemen. That sure sounds like big government to me.