Define "far left" and "centrist."

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18. Youve notably left out foreign policy

Which is, of course, increasingly important in the globalized (and unstable) era in which we live. I have noted that those associated with the farther left regions of the party (or outside it) are often closer to conservatives in their fairly isolationist views.

Then there is the issue of those on the left who chose to believe that economic policy alone will suffice to take care of those pesky issues of social injustice (sort of a “trickle down” social policy). I wonder how that works with Black Lives Matter or the victims of the Harvey Weinsteins of the world.

There are some so-called centrists who are more liberal in certain areas than the so-called left, and some leftists who are more conservative in certain areas than the centrists.

It’s better to scrap the labels and consider individual policies in real time. If we stopped hewing to stereotypes and labels, we’d get more done and end up with better policy across the board. All I’d like to see is less ideology and more progress. Ideologies are limiting, rigid, and in general nonproductive, on all sides.