Why the left would absolutely adore and support Trump...

[Nightshade]

...if he were in another country and called himself "revolutionary."

Large numbers of commentators and intellectuals associated with the “Left” in the West have, for over 100 years, continually allied themselves with totalitarian, extremist, thuggish, populist, militarist, extreme right-wing, religious fanatical regimes and movements abroad.

Whether it was George Bernard Shaw touring and apologizing for Stalin’s Russia, or Noam Chomsky claiming refugees from the Cambodian genocide were “unreliable” and that “massacre reports were false,” there is a long tradition of mitigating the kinds of crimes abroad people would never excuse at home.

To understand this phenomenon we have to unpack what it means to be “left-wing” in the West. To be on the Left is to be good, to be progressive, to be for women’s rights, gay rights, environmentalism, social justice, worker’s rights, and to be against racism and discrimination, perhaps against nuclear energy, against war.

It didn’t always mean that.

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Why- ... oad-462978

[callmeslick]

once again, Nightshade proves he has no clue what the 'left', or frankly the bulk of his fellow citizens, think.

[Grendel]

Your left is special.

[Tunnelcat]

Lets see. If Clinton is now a considered "centrist", I'm guessing "left" is sitting well inside anarchist territory right now from TB's perspective. By the way, most lefties consider Trump to be a narcissistic, egomaniac, plutocrat with delusions of Godhood who will in all likely start WWIII, which will be the largest Holy War on record and then make oodles of profit off of the whole disaster while sitting on his golden throne like a king.

By the way, what's wrong with this part TB?

To understand this phenomenon we have to unpack what it means to be “left-wing” in the West. To be on the Left is to be good, to be progressive, to be for women’s rights, gay rights, environmentalism, social justice, worker’s rights, and to be against racism and discrimination, perhaps against nuclear energy, against war.