# Does the US really have a "Left Wing"?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [July 20, 2021, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-us-really-have-a-left-wing/946923 "2021-07-20T23:31:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2021, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-us-really-have-a-left-wing/946923/61 "2021-07-24T23:48:27Z")

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Alabama Syndrome writ large. “Thank God for Mississippi!”

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**Author:** ![UDS1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e47774/32.png) [@UDS1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UDS1)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-us-really-have-a-left-wing/946923/62 "2021-07-26T00:56:14Z")

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> [@Franklymydear](#):
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> Would someone who opposed the CCP be considered “left wing”

Depends on why he opposes it, obviously. But, internationally, there are plenty of left-wingers who would criticise the CCP, from the left, for being insufficiently socialist (or for being barely socialist at all; socialist in name only). Trotskyites, for example. (And there’s no reason why that criticism couldn’t be voiced from within China as well, though of course we might not get to hear about it.)

Criticism of the CCP is not inherently a right-wing position; you have to look at the substance of the criticism to evaluate it on whatever left-right spectrum you are choosing to use.

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-us-really-have-a-left-wing/946923/63 "2021-07-26T01:05:20Z")

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“He’s dead, Jim.”

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