The Machine Breaks Down in New York

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4. Leftist my ass. This is where the REAL American center is.

We MUST reject these asinine labels and tear apart the propaganda for once and for all.

These candidates are as American as apple pie --
advocating a pragmatic balance between the corrupting power of unregulated capitalism and a government that responds to and serves the the good of the American people, starting with tax rates under which the wealthiest, who benefit the most from an educated, healthy, secure workforce and public infrastructure contribute the most to public education, public health, public infrastructure, governing agencies built on expertise and proven principles, economic safety nets, universal healthcare, and all the other structural changes that are long overdue and which are necessary to build a stable economy that is fair to all. (And all while corrupt Republicans hellbent on achieving the opposite have been wildly successful at creating the destabilizing, impoverishing, obscene concentration of the nation's assets in the hands of the few, and a 90 trillion dollar transfer of wealth from the many to the few since 1975)

If these folks are "leftists" than so was Eisenhower.

https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/presidential-election/eisenhower-wasn-t-a-socialist-but-he-had-high-taxes

Heather Cox Richardson does a fantastic job of rejecting the big lie of truly centrist policies being labeled "leftist" in this discussion.