I can prove it.
http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/2008/11/america-is-not-center-left-nation.html

LOL. After spending 6 months calling Obama a Marxist, they’re claiming that Obama ran on a reaganesque platform.

You really can’t make this shit up.

Your idea of what constitutes center left is actually the left.

There’s nothing wrong with being on the left. Say it loud and say it proud, I’m a left winger and I can’t wait until my beliefs *are* actually the center!

But… they are not the center. The center believes that racism is bad, but stereotyping people is all right, because, you know, “those people” really are just like that. The center believes that women should have the same rights as men, but women should be women and men should be men and it’s scary when they’re not. The center believes that Jesus is just all right, oh yeah. The center believes that policemen are inherently the good guys, so anyone who gets sent to jail probably deserves whatever they get.

On the other hand, the center also believes that people who work hard should get fair wages, that people shouldn’t lose jobs over something that they couldn’t control which had nothing to do with their work, that women should be able to enjoy sex too and that both sexes should have access to birth control, that it’s unfair for people to lose their home because they got sick, that it’s unfair for people to die because they didn’t have money when they got sick, that no one should starve, that kids should get a good education no matter where they grow up, and that big business really kind of is out to screw the little guy, so the government ought to be watching it. The center thinks we should all have clean air, clean water, and clean dirt for our houses to be built on, that it would be awfully nice to have cars that didn’t cost so much in gasoline, and that they would rather that their sons and daughters didn’t die so we could secure more access to said gasoline.

You can tell these are the positions of the center because these are the positions the Republicans *pretend* to hold while lying their asses off and actually trying to gut or stop everything on this list.

BTW, while America is economically to the right of pretty much every other developed country, which sucks, we do *not* have a lock on the righty sin of racism… Italy refuses to stop sending Gypsy kids to special ed, France tells Muslim girls that if they won’t go to school with naked heads they can’t go to school at all, German judges tell Muslim women who plead domestic violence that it’s okay for their husband to beat them because it’s normal in Muslim culture, Ireland forbids abortion and will only give birth control to married women, and Native Americans routinely somehow end up dead at the hands of Canadian police and no one gives a damn. Oh, and raped women are ignored and belittled EVERYWHERE. If anything, in some ways our culture is *less* racist than many others, because we hold it as an ideal that anyone from anywhere *could* theoretically become an American, whereas many countries with a stronger ethnic identity really won’t acknowledge you to be one of them unless your grandparents grew up there. We have a long way to go to overcome our problems with racism, but I don’t actually see us being too far removed from the positions of the rest of the developed world, there… it’s just that the minority they pick on is not usually the same one or ones we pick on.

Apparently not on SSM. Or issues of concern to trans* and gender variant people. Or breaking down the prison-industrial complex (starting with getting rid of Arpaio and decriminalizing drug use and prostitution). Or fairness to undocumented immigrants. Or racism, what with all those white moderate GLBT people blaming Black people for the failure of Prop 8.

I guess my idea of what constitutes “center left” differs from a lot of people’s.