[ecomcon]

Don’t you love the characterizations? Funny, it’s never the “hard left” that “steals” votes.

[Olog-hai]

True; somehow I don’t see them using the same language if Die Linke (the East German communist party) had such electoral gains.

[Cheerio]

Funny, it’s never the “hard left” that “steals” votes.

Liberal and their ilk in the media control the language. It is never the 'hard left' but it is always the 'wacked out right' or the radically conservatives'.