[outworlder]

> I feel that even trying to engage with anyone to the left

Maybe if you would step back from the partisan-thinking mode, you would find people more amenable to your views?

Labeling things 'left' or 'right' or 'liberal' may be a convenient shorthand, but it is not intellectually honest. Reality doesn't conform to party lines.

[tracker1]

You have to be able to name things... what names would you use?