You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.
I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.
The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
I'm not a left-wing person. I'm just a person interested in the sustainability of my country.
For a person of my sensibility, you're only left with the Democratic party.
My parents are left-wing, and I would describe myself as that. But also, you know what? I wouldn't describe myself as that. Because I don't have to. Because I'm not a political party. Most people are a little bit of each, and we change our mind on various issues.
I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
There is nothing so marginal as a party that has been in power for 18 years and slides into opposition. You influence nothing.