Well , first of all , we reached a consensus on the topics you ' re talking about in the 1970 s . They ' re not really up for debate . If you are really interested in the answers why , the source is probably the repression of the old left that occurred at the same time as a massive growth in racial justice politics which itself helped breed other social liberation politics that were molded into a non threatening force to capitalism . <| sep |> Fuck the pussy . <| sep |> Yeah , no , you have literally no clue what a political spectrum is dude . The UK , for example , conservatives there are about as right wing as conservatives here . Sanders , by any understanding of the political spectrum , would be fairly far left . He wouldn ' t be center left even in Europe , he ' d be nearing fairly far left if you exclude the crazy fringes . Just because our liberals are economically literate doesn ' t mean they aren ' t liberals . There ' s a reason the EU economy is dog shit .