His ramblings are incoherent, he’s psychotic, incapable of any meaningful understanding of any philosophical point of view, leftist or otherwise. He may have regurgitated some left wing nonsense, but the overarching chaotic nature of his diatribes was psychotic parroting of random disconnected bits and pieces.
Say what you want but his friend and classmate is calling him a Leftist. He may be a nutty Leftist, but a Leftist nonetheless.
Oh please, spare me your shilling for Socialists! How is Jared Loughner any different from every Leftist Socialist Democrat minion anyone has ever heard from? If you've heard one synapse snap from any Liberal, you've heard them all. They all use groupthink as dogma and this crazy assassin is no different at all! Stop defending the Nazi-Communist Socialists!