It’s largely the same place it’s always been. The main thing that’s different is that these days most Americans really don’t understand what left and right is and use the terms incorrectly. For people of the boomer generation probably the last person in their family to actually have a basic understanding of left and right would have been their grandparents.
Today left and right only means that you either support right Wingers who pay lip service to social democracy, or right Wingers who are hardcore zealots of bigotry and authoritarianism. There is no major left-wing economic representation in the United States.
The problem right now seems to be where the majority of wealth lies, and how it is being used to keep the poor right where they are.
It’s largely the same place it’s always been. The main thing that’s different is that these days most Americans really don’t understand what left and right is and use the terms incorrectly. For people of the boomer generation probably the last person in their family to actually have a basic understanding of left and right would have been their grandparents.
Today left and right only means that you either support right Wingers who pay lip service to social democracy, or right Wingers who are hardcore zealots of bigotry and authoritarianism. There is no major left-wing economic representation in the United States.