"They call me the Far Left"?

[KPN]

50. Great OP. I read this the other day but time was tight so I've come back to it just to say

how much I enjoyed and appreciated what you had to say. Probably because to a significant extent it was my story as well. Blue collar, eastern MA, ancestors on my Mom's side arrived in 1620 (Plymouth Colony), Dad was a Marine and served in both WWII and Korea, local truck driver (Teamster's Union member), he and my Mom raised nine kids on that one income largely because my Dad worked all the OT he could get -- often worked 60 hours a week) in order to provide for us, but my stay-at-home Mom was the stalwart in the family -- she was the boss no question, etc., etc.

My parents taught me that I was a Democrat ... and why: because the Democrats worked for the working and middle class. There was never any question about that. If the candidate was a Democrat, that person would get our votes. ....

Long story short, I too watched knowingly over the past 40 years and repeatedly had my heart broken by a political center that consistently drifted right starting most obviously with Reagan and fueled by big money interests and Republican rapacious ideology that struck me always as "Me First".

It makes me angry that today I am considered "far left" or "socialist" as a result of the long rightward drift. It makes me angry that some -- even here at DU -- seem to think my views are radical or at best too much to hope for.

But I refuse to give up that hope and will continue to do what little I can to help shift the needle back to the middle.