identifying proudly, btw.
Sounds to me like you're a positive builder-type radical as in always wanting "more" and willing to look "outside the box" for solutions. Not dysfunctional radical as in must revolt to destroy the establishment, give me a bad leader and I will chew off my leg to spite my tail type. 
I've never called myself radical even, or especially, when I was surrounded by radicals in radical times. I am a strong progressive liberal committed to properly using the power of establishment created by the people to serve them, but there should be some overlap. I've always been open to supposedly "radical" when that just means positive, innovative solutions and striving for the more and better we always know is possible.
In this era, though, older myself, I believe our nation's biggest problem that must be fixed is our divided electorate. We have fallen. That's entirely different from other times when I would never have guessed that someday I would believe so strongly in the need to rebuild the broken center I never considered myself part of that I would measure everything else by its contribution to that.
After all, even turning the government to the enormously existential climate crisis requires first getting the power to do it. And that requires engaging the will of the people.
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