Good question. I’ll answer your question by pulling four topics out of a hat.
Considering:
—That gay marriage wasn’t made legal everywhere in America until as recently as the year 2015 (and that in spite of some legal protections, at the man-on-the-street level, homophobia/transphobia is widespread in society);
—That we had a semi-serious effort from a defeated Presidential candidate to reject election results and dissolve America’s democratic character in the year 2020;
—That a 50-year-old constitutional right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy was reversed in the year 2022, sending a woman’s right to control her own body/future careening backwards in a number of states;
—That American children in the year 2023 are being denied lifesaving medical care and going to bed hungry and are even homeless in the richest country on earth, and there’s no real plan from either party to do anything about this;
On all four of these issues — LGBTQ rights, democracy, women’s rights, and child poverty* — I would say that “too-far-right” is the default American position. And it doesn’t just affect Republicans. Democrats, too. Given our status as the world’s wealthiest/most powerful country, we sure do tolerate a whole lot of injustice that we could solve if we only wanted to.
Now I’ll turn your question back around on you: What’s “too far Left”?
*I’m choosing “child poverty” deliberately because it’s often argued that welfare disincentivizes work. Well, regardless of that argument’s merit with respect to adults, it straight up doesn’t apply to children. Children are usually understood to not be able to make decisions for themselves. Children are prevented by child labor laws from working, and most believe (correctly, I think) that children ought to focus their energies on education and, you know, being a kid. Hard to do any of those things well when you’re starving, or you don’t have a roof over your head, or you’re debilitated by some untreated health condition. So, I find someone’s position on *child* poverty/healthcare is illuminating as to whether their outlook is rooted in simple indifference to human suffering.
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