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Optimism about the possibility of improving living conditions for everyone so that every individual can realize their full human potential is at the heart of the American Left tradition. Against the Right's grinding negativity and appeals to the worst impulses, the democratic Left offers hope for renewal.

The "Left" in the United States is the side of the political spectrum that looks to the olive branch of peace, symbolized by the eagle in the Great Seal.

American Liberalism, and specifically the platform of the the Democratic Party in the United States, is sometimes considered "right wing" when compared with the communist and neo-communist political parties and social movements abroad and at home. The reality is that it has always occupied the center-left in the Amereican political ideological spectrum, just as conservatives have usually occupied the center-right. Today American liberalism occupies approximately the same political ideological and public policy space as the social-democratic parties of Western Europe, Canada, and Australia such as the British Labour Party, the French Socilalist Party, the German Social-Democratic Party, the Canadian New Democratic Party and the Australian Labor Party. The increasingly important question for Amercian democracy is whether the Republican Party continues to occupy just the center-right or has begun to goose-step farther to the right.

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United States of America

Democrats: Democratic National Committee, Young Democrats of America, College Democrats of America

Activist organizations: WeDemocrats.org, Democracy for America, USDemocrat Network, Progressive Democrats of America, Progressive States, Progressive Majority, USA CAN

Important elections:2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

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What are the issues that the Left cares about, and where do we stand? Note that some of these are issues and stances that might be shared by some on the Right, but not by the Right as a whole.

Civil Rights - right to privacy, freedom of religion, separation of church and state

Environmental Protection - combating global climate change, extinction of species, pollution

Labor Justice - protecting workers' rights to organize

Media Reform - opposing consolidation, breaking media blackouts

Military Funding - decreasing unnecessary funding for the military

Reproductive Freedom - allowing individuals, especially women, the chance to control for themselves when they will have children

Social Justice

Social Security

Universal Health Care

World Peace - avoiding war and negotiating the end of armed conflict whenever possible

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Here's a list of Media sources that we can use to get the truth.

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Here are some replies to the myths put forward about the Left. I know you didn't believe their hype, but here's a place to talk about how to answer them.

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Here are some ideas and deep framing that needs to inform and organize Liberal thought, research into the political effects of how the brain works, and ideological frameworks that work for people. Here is a place to find links to the research, and how to use that information to have a positive result for humanity.

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