Agreed, Ron. There is no real "Left" in American politics. By general world standards, the Democrats and the Republicans are both considerably right of center. The Republicans just like to pretend the Democrats are "leftists", because it scares the American voters...some of whom are gullible enough to believe it. The Democrats are placed in an embarrassing situation thusly, because nothing they can do can possibly make them seem as "rightist" as the Republicans.....although they do try. ;-)

The USA is virtually the only society in the world (outside of a few iron-handed military dictatorships) where it's commonly considered a bad thing to be a "liberal".