Or as long-time DU-ers know about me:

Liberal until I DIE, motherfuckers!

Proud Democrat.

and their ideological purity bs...We seen the mini hannities...murdochs all reciting the same right wing drivel...

by certain individuals is so annoying! Some of us are very left wing, we just understand that our political system as designed by the founding fathers is one of checks and balances. It's incredibly difficult to get majorities that can enact great change all at once so you better learn how to win smaller battles that build on each other. A smart progressive wouldn't cut off their nose to spite their face.

"Politics is the art of the possible."

I'm further left than anyone I know out there in the real world, and I am for Hillary. (And I live, and have always lived, in very liberal areas and have moved in very liberal circles.)

Being for Bernie does not make a person "extreme left". On the contrary, it suggests many other things, most of which are pretty far right. Unfortunately, I can't spell them out, or this post might get hidden.

Because they are very much the same. The political science Horseshoe Theory explains this phenomenon aptly. According to this widely held theory, the political spectrum should not be viewed as straight line with the the radical left near one extreme and the radical right near the other. Instead the political continuum should be viewed as being horseshoe shaped with the radical left and and radical right being closer together than they are to moderates.

This doesn't describe what they believe, but rather how they are very similar in their outlooks and actions.

Typical characteristics of both the radical right and the radical left:

- A sense that they are ideologically pure.

- A belief that they are superior in their thought process (though have laid claim to a logical thought in years.)

- A view that anyone who doesn't share their beliefs is at best "misguided" or "uninformed"

- A tendency on the left to call anyone more moderate than themselves a conservative or worse, and a tendency on the right to call anyone more moderate than themselves a liberal or worse.

- A tendency to try to silence those with whom they disagree.

- A sense of paranoia - quick to believe in conspiracy theories when their political moves go sour - after all it couldn't possibly by their fault or their candidates fault - its because the "establishment" is out to get them.

Yep, those on the radical left can easily be confused with the those radical right because they act so much alike.

I just don't want to think that misogyny and racism are leftist ideals. The only way to make sense of it all is to conclude that those who claim they are the radical left are not, in fact, on the left.

Perhaps those who make up the "radical right" are not really that far right, either? One can only hope.

Seriously, though: if being on the left means caring only about economic "equality" for white men, then what are people like me, who believe that racial and gender equality are just as important as economic equality, to call ourselves?

ETA: I have never considered myself a "moderate" or a "centrist", and I don't want to allow a bunch of Bernie supporters to redefine what being a leftist means.

The others are more economic populists. Economic inequality demands a revolution!!!!!!!!! But fighting against inequality of the sexes, races, ethnic groups, religions, sexual orientations, gender identities, physical/mental abilities, etc. is playing the "______" card

Don't let them define who we are. Damnit, we are the REAL Left! It doesn't matter if it benefits us personally or not. Fighting oppression anywhere and everywhere...it's simply the right thing to do.

I've always considered myself far left. I considered Bernie as a candidate when this started, because I liked his ideas. But the things that eventually turned me off to his campaign were decidedly unprogressive.

I was turned off by hearing that none of the top 10 people on his campaign were women, by his tone-deaf reaction to losing Southern states, by his comment about pro-choice issues not being "what really matters", by the way I saw his campaign dismiss the idea of the first woman president as not very ground-breaking...and this is just a few of the things that I didn't like. So it really pisses me off when people try to claim that HRC supporters are the conservative Republican ones. It seems incredibly hypocritical to claim you're progressive when you consistently put women and minorities second.

right now. The posters making the most noise will have to settle down once Hillary clinches the nomination. The things they're getting away with now won't be tolerated.

...but GD is full of BS too. Once in awhile the really egregious posts get locked, but most of them are left standing. I gave up alerting on them because it has become an exercise in futility.

And, the jury system is FUBAR, having been hijacked by a few fanatics.

The HRC Group is the only safe haven for real Dems until the end of the primary process.

But, take courage. Only two weeks to go!

Welcome to your philosophical home! You are among friends.

just caused many of them to go into hiding. Understandably.

Which, of course, was the intended result of the drumbeat of nonsense, which is sad.

Assuming the hammer falls after June 7th or June 14th or whenever, I suspect a lot of them will starting peeking out again. This place might actually be halfway pleasant again once we can focus on the real task at hand, beating Trump and improving D/R ratios in Congress.

Yeah, I like that part, too.

gonna kill me! so cute!!!! Wanna grab it and squeeze the little emoji!!! LOL!!!!

favorite little rofl guy.. shorter legs like moi.

With the end being near, Hillary supporters are coming out and confronting the Sanders fans on GD-P and the Sanders fans don't quite know what to make of their opponents reappearance. It is no longer the exclusive Sanders echo chamber that it once was.

In a couple of weeks real Democrats will take back that territory for good, and the Sanders fans can either jump on the Hillary band wagon, keep their thoughts to themselves, or be banned.

Lifelong Democrat here!

We need to stick together!

Its rough, but some of us are not going to be run off. Expect it to be much more sane after the Primary.

Things changed after the Nevada Convention and all those crazy conspiracy theories ... the whole family is voting for Clinton now

It's hard to gauge these things as we all have degrees of confirmation bias, no matter how hard we fight against it.

I'm glad that others understood how unsavory that whole business was.

Welcome.

...as to whether I would vote for the candidate that my party chose. Full disclosure here, I was one of the first in the country to vote for Bernie. Despite having a herniated lumbar disk with excruciating sciatica, I limped into my polling place in NH and pulled the lever for the Senator from our sister state before noon on primary day. I can't really put my finger on when it was that his whole campaign began to put me off, but it didn't take long. I guess as a lapsed Catholic, I'm always suspicious of those "holier than thou" types.

us in our little but powerful corner of the world?

Who would have thought that it would be so hard to find a place on this site that supports Democrats?

And if y'all want a statistical confirmation of where your political views lie on the full spectrum, try this quiz, it's actually kinda fun: http://www.people-press.org/quiz/political-typology/

True Blue Dem!!! Huah!