Just to put the record straight....Although I think of myself as a radical, I very much agree with Brian's post above.

Too many people allow their political label to influence their powers of reason.

This is very obvious in the Republican/Democrat War in the USA where folks are immediately defined by the way they vote.
People cast their votes for all sorts of reasons

Mostly its the "least worst" option.....Isn't that a shame, when we could be spending time and energy constructing something which we could believe in.