Everything is relative.

Relative to the George W administration with torure, dismissal of the Geneva convention, patriot acts, secret energy fracking deals, NSA and verizon spying without any judge to approve wire tapping, deregualtion of banks - to do harm, limiting bankrupcy laws, freedom zones of public censorship of freedom to assemble, maximizing interest, fruadulent mortgages, naziesque commander in chief performaces, in essense a goverment controled media... a very long list indeed.

anyway relative to all that the typical 1958 democrat would now be viewed as WAAAAAY to the left....because the right moved so much.

You've heard how GOldwater is a leftie by default today.