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The right doesn't know what the left looks like anymore. What they interpret as "left" is made up of the centrists that actually exist and the bogeyman (is there a right way to spell this?) that they're told to fear and hate. The real, actual left isn't represented in media.
I'm the left. I want single-payer healthcare right now, I want investigations into 9/11 and the human rights violations that followed, I want civilian military contractors banned from the country, I don't want a standing military, I want a Department of Peace, I want a larger school system, I want to slash the defense budget by about 90%, I want women to have the right to choose what to do with their body regardless of what their doctor believes, I want any hint of religion in government smashed (and visa versa, no government in religion either), I want FULL lgbt equality, I want an end to the current prison system and to concentrate on prevention of crime, I want the war on drugs/the poor/unwed mothers/terror/crime to all end because they're fucking jokes, and I'm going to do all of this with a balanced budget. Nowhere in any mainstream media are these views represented. Nowhere.
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