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In reply to the discussion: Our future is center-left not far-left. The business community and DLC, not OWS [View all]cprise
(8,445 posts)You seem to have your terms and/or political history confused and remind me of Democrats who refuse to believe that Bill Clinton repealed Glass-Steagal (incidentally, the kind of people who barrel around the city in large SUVs and devote most of their free time to the Catholic Church-- but I digress).
Martin Luther King advocated socialism in his final few months before he was murdered. Socialists dominate the Left in most developed countries where they are not often considered "far left": Social democracies and mixed-economy countries. It does not make good sense to demonize a fictitious "far left", knowing what that usually encompasses, but we have paid dearly because Democrats like you- in echoing today's thoroughly rotten corporate culture -made it their business to do so.
Much of the business community, the corporate aristocrats who depend on this (and I dare you to watch it all), should be out of business or behind bars. They are dangerous psychopaths. If you prefer to be their security blanket and 'natural ally' by trashing movements like OWS it is your right, but do not expect history to be kind.