I'm not. Clearly they've long since abandoned any pretense of being an actual labor movement, but this is what the left is now and everybody knows what is meant. The majority of self identified left-leaning people will vote for and support democrat party politicians.
It's just as unhelpful to try to claim there are no right wing politicians in the United States because none of them actually support free markets or small government. Technically true by at least some of the multitude of definitions, but it's just being contrary.
I get that a lot of leftists are probably deeply embarrassed and upset by what their movement has become. I was too. But language evolves and so do political movements, and it's more correct to say that the leftist movement in the United States (and largely the western world) are no longer of and for the worker.
They certainly aren't traditional liberals either, defined by support for liberty, individual rights, equality, ad tolerance.
It's just as unhelpful to try to claim there are no right wing politicians in the United States because none of them actually support free markets or small government. Technically true by at least some of the multitude of definitions, but it's just being contrary.
I get that a lot of leftists are probably deeply embarrassed and upset by what their movement has become. I was too. But language evolves and so do political movements, and it's more correct to say that the leftist movement in the United States (and largely the western world) are no longer of and for the worker.
They certainly aren't traditional liberals either, defined by support for liberty, individual rights, equality, ad tolerance.