Radical left lunatics check in here

[Henry203]

Unite

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Welcome to DU, Henry!

I'm not radically-left. I'm left-of-center.

[Hotler]

2. Yo! "When going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Hunter S. Thompson.

[The Wandering Harper]

3. haven't reached lunatic stage

but I seem to get lefter every year

[no_hypocrisy]

4. I wholly believe in the principles and the goals of The New Deal and The Great Society.

Call me anything you want.

[Jilly_in_VA]

5. Me too.

I guess I'm a Blue Diaper baby.

[bluesbassman]

12. Been that way all my adult life.

Used to be we just considered ourselves Liberals for thinking that way. I suppose in this new reality we are the Radical Left. I find myself shaking my head way more than I used to.

[walkingman]

6. I am definitely a lefty but not really radically left.

I prefer equality of opportunity over equality of outcome, which I think defines the difference between left and radically left.
I see no value in conservatism at all, it sucks to suck.

[The Wandering Harper]

8. I like equality of opportunity

with a strong safety net that leaves no one struggling to survive

[walkingman]

14. Good point - same here☮

[rampartd]

19. then maybe you can explain that right wing talking point to me

i think it is attributed to sowell.

do any of us short of actual socialists think "outcomes" should be equal?

[walkingman]

20. I think that is a very good question and not one that can easily be answered.

I don't think equality of opportunities is the opposite of equality of outcomes (and vice-versa) both are related and can not be understood without considering the other term. From an academic and sociological standpoint that is a very deep and controversial subject.

I think any talking point from the left or right is meant to convey a message. And as far as that goes the terms left and radical left need to be defined before attributing them to anyone.

But you made me think and I thank you for that.

[EnergizedLib]

7. Right here

trump and MAGA have pushed further left than any Democrat ever has.

[Think. Again.]

9. Left is the correct position...

...the more rightward you go, the radical you are.

[GPV]

10. That would be me.

[4th]

11. I'm not particularly active as an activist these days.

But I definitely have a history of it.

Union organizer. Reagan era anti-nuke activist.

Welcome aboard.

[jalan48]

13. I think radical has become someone who still supports the idea of Social Security and Medicare.

The Grand Bargain was all the rage just a few years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_bargain_(United_States,_2011)

[bdamomma]

15. i would change that

to the Rational left, not lunatics.

[Henry203]

16. This has to do with Trump's thanksgiving message

Go read it.

[Aristus]

17. Present and ready to be radically left!

[Ping Tung]

18. Radical, liberal, progressive, communist, socialist, anarchist.

Are all labels. All are subjective and relative. So, take your pIck(s).

I'm more interested in the issues and decide where I stand on them.

"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in politics, I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." --Thomas Jefferson