Reply #27: Well I was using the FDR comparison to illuminate

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that "relativistic" nature of the political spectrum today. I'm a Marxist, so yeah FDR was the "centrist" of the bourgeoisie system, so in real terms I'm way to the left of FDR. But in today's RELATIVISTIC version of the political spectrum, FDR's (and Ike's for that matter) positions are "far left".

It's not so much that the "far left" has drifted right, it's just that the leadership and the media have drifted far right and they look at everybody else's politics in the light of what THEY think of as centrist. That doesn't mean it IS centrist. It just means that they try to portray right wing positions as centrist.