Speaking as a Canadian, who had a reasonable career working as a political advisor to a number of US politicians, I never ceased to be amazed at what some Americans call "leftist."
In most cases, the difference between US "conservatives" and "liberals" is so slight that determining it is like picking gnat shit out of pepper. It only becomes cogent among an electorate that is so blinkered as to believe what they are told by media meat-puppets of the "right" or "left" and who have little to no knowledge of political ideology, realpolitik, or a world beyond their nations borders.
