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56. There are people arguing that Rand Paul would move the Democratic party to the left

There is a poll to that effect, with no option that he would move the party to the right, which is where he actually sits on the political spectrum.

I agree no socialist would support him. Paul will draw support from the right, even if those right-wingers believe they are leftist.

I seek to correct the record as to what actually constitutes the left. I'm sick to death of people who clearly have no familiarity or association with leftist politics claiming that mantle and actually responding to Marxist analysis by calling in "centrist." There is a level of obtuseness that has gone unchecked far too long. The arguments about Paul are the last straw as far as I'm concerned. I've had enough of this faux leftism.

I'm not getting into the issue of Clinton. We aren't in a presidential election, and we have no candidates. I won't choose a candidate to vote for until that time. I will point out that I disagree with you completely that Paul doesn't contrast with the Democrats. The positions above show that quite clearly. He is very far to the right, as are his supporters and defenders. They engage in an exclusively top down view of politics and care only about contests among political elites. They insist the concerns of the vast majority of Americans, those who are not privileged in terms of class, race, and gender--are "Third Way." I've had enough of the bullshit. That is why I posted this OP. People need to know what left really is. It isn't the country club view of politics that is so common these days.