Does advocating for single-payer healthcare, free community college, marriage equality, pro-choice, and higher tax rates for wealthy individuals constitute 'far left'? Serious question. I have in mind what I would think of as far left, but I don't see those folks are particularly well represented in the United States.

Far left would be advocating murdering billionaires, punching gay people who don’t include trans people in their sexuality, etc.

I consider myself a right-leaning libertarian, and I am totally on-board with everything you said, save one. The more I ruminate on it, the more I think abortion is the single issue that encapsulates the political dichotomy of left vs. right in the US. Where you fall on the line, from "no abortions, ever" to "abortion up to a week after birth, no questions asked" readily defines how "right" or "left" you are, according to the press in the US.

> Where you fall on the line, from "no abortions, ever" to "abortion up to a week after birth, no questions asked"

This is the false dichotomy so often pushed by right-wing ideologues. Literally nobody on any side of the abortion debate advocates for "abortions up to a week after birth" or anywhere close to that. This sort of boolean thinking is the root of our (especially current) toxic political climate.

It seems like that might be difficult for you to believe, considering the bias inherent in your own statement, but I've never seen anyone on the "right" side of this debate not at least make exception for "health of the mother" or rape. So, to my eyes, both sides of my statement were equally specious. I was simply trying to frame the opposite ends of the spectrum as far away as I could, for purposes of the point I was trying to make.

I think your reaction to this is the very problem you're trying to describe, but, to each their own.

What do the surveys say?

There are plenty of actual communists on reddit you know.

Being OK with the recent abortion bills in NY and VA is pretty far left. Statistically speaking.

Reddit has also had a problem with anti-religious hate content, which isn't necessarily left wing except that the hate is often pointed at uncultured, socially conservative stereotypes.

I do not read headlines much but I recall hearing something about late term abortions recently. I am curious if the point is to push back against the far-right who want to outlaw it altogether? Because actually advocating for legal late term abortions would be out there a ways.

Thanks for the reply in any case. It is enlightening to hear what someone else's viewpoints are on where the current left/right ideological divide is these days. Sometimes it feels like we are in crazyland.

I personally try to avoid the religious stuff because I'm ignostic (commonly misheard as agnostic and I don't usually correct because it gets some folks a little bothered), but just a couple weeks ago we dropped off our kids with grandma for a weekend and when they came home they were telling us all about how grandma told them God this, Jesus that, etc. sigh. If I complain, I look like the asshole, but dammit, why do people think it's okay to proselytize to elementary aged kids that are not their own? So I can almost understand when people get a little nuts with the anti-religious viewpoint, even though I don't advocate namecalling and ridiculing others for their belief or lack thereof.

yeah the people who want to redistribute money are equally as scary as the ones who are actively racist

Please, don't equate taxes to a complete nationalization of nearly all industries plus a ban on all monetary transactions save a few whitelisted types. It's an absurd comparison that does nothing to further the current discussion.

While I question whether this is true, if it is, yes, it does. Violent extremism, or incitement of violent extremism, of any form, should not be tolerated.