Can you please define the main points of an US lefty and an US right-wing for me?
A good overview (with links to various articles) to the soul of American conservatism could be viewed here. Anything less than this would be considered leftists by US standards. This would put 90% of a typical non-US Westerner's beliefs as to the left of American political right, and the other 10% of beliefs as to the right of US political centre. This is perfectly normal because American conservatism is a completely different animal:
http://www.claremont.org/localliberty/archives/003145.html