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[–]MezozoicGay 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It is because "the Left" were hijacked by "the Right". So now those people who act like right-wing, asking for right-way solutions, thinking like right-wing people are calling themselves "left" and a lot of media is calling them as "left".

Hijacking meaning of words is common in authoritarian rullership. For example, in Russia they created new movement of "Cossacks", and those people were very-very loud, they were legalized bandits, who were cross-dressing and acting very retarded. They were in all news and active nearly for a year. And now when in Russia someone will say word "Cossack" in meaning of ukrainian cossacks (or historical cossack countries), everyone instead will remember those clowns.

Same is here as well. Clowns calling themselves "Left", they in all news and screaming a lot. And boom, now "Left" associating with them in minds of most people.