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pat_k

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49. All we can do is challenge the "left" characterization wherever we can..

Sun Jun 28, 2026, 11:41 AM

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... Particularly when news outlets use it. Letters to the editor, comments in newsfeeds or YouTube segments. And especially when folks in independent media use the "left" rhetoric.

For example, HCR does a great job of challenging the "left" characterization at 28:46 in the following

Heather Cox Richardson does a fantastic job of rejecting the big lie of truly centrist policies being labeled "left" in the discussion below. (Prof G asks something like "at times like these do American's turn hard left?)

Perhaps it won't make much of a difference, but the more people challenge the propaganda with facts, outlets and allies may shift rhetoric and stop reinforcing the big lie.

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Call bullshit on the "leftist" label. [View all] pat_k Friday OP

Puke propaganda Ponietz Friday #1

The overton window has moved far right Flatrat Friday #2

Not lazy, complicit robbob Friday #13

Well, when you're getting paid a few million a year to toe the line... progressoid Friday #34

100% Blue Full Moon Friday #3

Anything that returns us to FDR and the New Deal is all I want. no_hypocrisy Friday #4

Minus the racism systemically included in some of the New Deal, racist policies designed to ensure the support of Celerity Friday #9

Another evil compromise and continuation of the original sin. pat_k Friday #11

Or even the Eisenhower years pat_k Friday #10

Bet me to it! paleotn Friday #20

And the more of us who challenge the labels as a matter of course,... pat_k Friday #27

Todays definition of "RINO" is simply disagree with trump. Callie1979 Saturday #37

The corporate tax rate wasnt even CLOSE to 90% under Ike. Callie1979 Saturday #36

You are correct. 90 was the top marginal individual rate. 52% was the top corp rate. pat_k Saturday #44

But his article ignores the fact that few ever PAID 90%. Callie1979 Yesterday #46

Excellent graphic! liberalla Saturday #43

Wince. "hoard" not "horde", dammit. RandomNumbers Saturday #45

Recommended. H2O Man Friday #5

The tyranny of the minority peggysue2 Friday #6

You aint done nothin' if you aint been called a red Warpy Friday #7

92% are worried about corruption in Government KS Toronado Friday #8

Absolutely!!!! pat_k Friday #12

The corruption is at the core. yellow dahlia Friday #32

A lot of younger voters are embracing the term "leftist" TheProle Friday #14

I wouldn't want to ostracize. But a lesson in history wouldn't go amiss. pat_k Friday #17

Well in fairness, there's some air between a history lesson and "calling bullshit" TheProle Friday #21

To me, factual context that demonstrates the label is not valid... pat_k Friday #26

Exactly. When people win elections, especially by substantial margins Bluetus Friday #15

Biden hibbing Friday #16

I wonder, BidenRocks Friday #18

There's a great discussion of what history tells us about how this could play out at 28:46 in the following pat_k Friday #19

Well, when we see some of those candidates positions, they are fodder for the RW Callie1979 Saturday #38

When you are situated on the far-right, MOST policy looks like it's to the Left of you 31j20b3 Friday #22

Putting the radical right fascist corporatism of the current Republican pat_k Friday #31

Thanks for the HCR clip. yellow dahlia Friday #33

Q. And who controls the narrative? BaronChocula Friday #23

Letters to editors. Lots of letters to editors. pat_k Friday #24

Concise and precise Gum Logger Friday #25

We need parity in human services with the advanced democratic nations delisen Friday #28

There is no "far left" in America... BH liberal Friday #29

The entire explainer from Heather Cox Richardson makes this crystal clear. pat_k Friday #30

And the tragedy is... BH liberal Yesterday #47

All we can do is challenge the "left" characterization wherever we can.. pat_k Yesterday #49

I saw the long version of that video by HCR last night. applegrove Saturday #35

That's why we have so many billionaires and trillionaires, I suppose... kentuck Saturday #39

Well the GOP caters to the filthy-rich Farmer-Rick Saturday #40

Obviously, if Centrist Democrats would espouse these "Centrist" positions, they would attract more votes. ihaveaquestion Saturday #41

Love HCR for making sense and telling the truth clearly! liberalla Saturday #42

The only way for an idealistic system like communism to work... BH liberal Yesterday #48