Firmly agree, what the US considers left versus with the rest of the world considered the left is vastly different. Even it’s left-leaning “parties” are borderline to moderate right when compared to the rest of the civilized countries who share similar ideologies.

Any true left leaning candidates get their funding ripped out at the roots and get stonewalled off the ballets, even Sanders, while a breath of fresh air was still more centrist than leftist when he was running, it’s just the US scale is so off balance that he used the “socialist/leftist” tag to get into the news/boost his PR.