Tje Democratic Party has some tattered remains of a Left in it, Jack, embodied in a very few men (or women) like Dennis Kucinich, but as a party it has moved so far to the Right in the last few decades that I do not consider it to be a real representative of the Left at all. I think of it as a Republican wolf walking around in sheep's clothing and going "Ba-a-a-a-a-a" now and then to keep people in a state of fantasy about what sort of beast it really is.

As for the Republicans, they just bare their fangs and howl! They're wolves, and proud of it.

I don't consider any of the Canadian parties to be real representatives of the Left either anymore, by the way, not even the NDP. The NDP used to represent the Left, but I don't see any real evidence that they do anymore. The days of Tommy Douglas and Ed Broadbent are long gone. The Right has basically taken over politics in North America since the 1980s.