What the hell is the radical left?

[leftyladyfrommo]

I hear that all the time. Doesn't seem to me that we are all that radical.

[Nictuku]

1. Those scroundrals who want health care for everyone

[leftyladyfrommo]

3. Ole dumb me. I think everyone who can't afford

private insurance should get Medicare.

[C_U_L8R]

2. That's what Trumpjerks call ordinary people.

[leftyladyfrommo]

7. That's kind of what I thought.

If you don't drink beer and wave a gun around and say really stupid stuff you are part of the radical left?

[Fiendish Thingy]

20. That's what Rahm Emmanuel calls normal people nt

[JonLP24]

4. We don't have a weather underground anymore

So it is all just false equivalency with the neo fascists.

[Thomas Hurt]

5. Anyone who isn't a christofascist is a radical leftists....

also if you diss Commander Bedbug you instantly become a radical leftist.

[Nictuku]

18. Commander Bedbug!! I needed a good laugh, thx!

[Baked Potato]

6. If someone called me "radical", I would feel young again.

[leftyladyfrommo]

10. Me, too. I miss my protest days. nt

[Squinch]

8. It's like the mirror image of "the establishment." Just another

bullshit term to toss around that means nothing.

[Aussie105]

9. Obvious who the Radical Left is . . . .

Anyone who doesn't believe in their Radical Right ideas, and needs to have a negative label stuck to their foreheads.

I guess anyone who is concerned about the wellbeing of others and wants to improve things like gun control, a living wage from one job (gasp!), affordable health care and quality education is in the Radical Left.

Be proud of it if it applies to you!

It's a GOOD label, and it tells you exactly who the person who uses that label, is.

[juxtaposed]

11. i think I'm in that mix

Im conservative in a fiscal sense but left in most everything else

[Walleye]

12. Still trying to figure out what the culture war is.

[Aussie105]

13. Easy!

People with Culture, and wanting to protect it, versus people with no Culture, and proud of it!

[Walleye]

14. Ah. Now I know. Thanks 😉

[wyldwolf]

15. I've always defined it as 'methods' not 'policies.'

"Money needs to be removed from politics" = sensible.
"FUCK ______, he/she is a corporate whore" = radical left.

[dewsgirl]

16. Because he is offended we use the term far right.

When in reality, at this point far right covers the entire GOP.

[In It to Win It]

17. The avocado toast eaters

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. Whoever has the Trumpers shitting themselves.

[Blue_true]

21. You don't hear that from true democrats.

The far left may be called the far left to signify that they are farther left than most democrats, but a derogatory term like "radical" is not used. Radical implies defective or somehow strange and different, that is an unacceptable way to talk about those you mostly agree with, except on how to implement the objectives.

[Caliman73]

22. Anything to the left of the GOP

It is just a catchphrase like the "liberal media". There is no liberal media. There is commercial media that typically tries to report factual statements. We all know that reality favors facts and change which is something the liberals accept. So conservatives say "liberal media" to denounce the reality that life is about change and growth and that new facts should challenge our current views and we adapt to them or adapt them to move forward.

There is a radical left and they tend to favor a more flattened society without capitalism, where the state supports the people throughout, not just the wealthy. The radicals tend to want to nationalize and confiscate wealth from the wealthy and redistribute the wealth and resources to all of the people. HOWEVER, that is not what Trump is talking about. He merely wants to put out a boogeyman to scare people into seeing anyone who isn't for the Wall, or tax cuts, or his policies of destroying our already ridiculous healthcare as being "radical".

Conservatives do not think. They seem to thrive on feeling fear and anger. They are always activated always aroused, and always ready to be told who is "the enemy".

[JHB]

26. Yep. Back in the late 70s-early 80s, I learned from watching Reed Irvine...

...founder of "Accuracy In Media", one of the early conservative "media criticism" groups, that "liberal media bias" amounted to failure to cheerlead a conservative agenda. Mere neutrality was "liberal bias".

[chowder66]

23. People who are not republican and are radically hated. nt

[leftyladyfrommo]

25. The Human Scum?

No, wait. Those are the Never Trumpers.

So what kind of scum are the radical left?

[appalachiablue]

24. 'Anything to the left of Reagan' as someone said.

[DBoon]

28. The handful of sociology grad students in the Spartacists League

Basically, an almost non-existent boogieman used to scare people away from sensible liberal policies

[MissMillie]

29. Kind of hard to know that, isn't it

When the right has gone so far right that they're off the spectrum.

[Blue_Tires]

30. They're all on twitter

pledging to vote for Trump if Sanders doesn't get the nomination....

[live love laugh]

31. It's yet another RepubLIEcon projection. nt

[ancianita]

32. It's alt-right lingo. It should be mocked every single time it's used.

[Nature Man]

33. Are the Weathermen still blowing up shit?

there hasn't been a radical leftist movement in this country since COINTELPRO killed any "movement" ideologies.

These assholes would piss their pants if an actual radical leftist movement sprang up.

That's why they fought so hard to make sure what happened in the 60s and early 70s will never happen again.