Er, single payer, free college, drug decriminalization, UBI, tighter bank regs, carbon taxes, etc. That was a pretty crazy/ignorant comment.
I think that all fits my post. They've moved so far to the left that the last tier is a list of totally theoretical/nonviable fantasy items. Satisfying their voters by pretending to pursue these ridiculous policies is their biggest obstacle, moreso than any truly extant "right-wing".
Mild recreational drugs are already being rapidly decriminalized. Meth/heroin/etc decriminalization is unlikely to be socially viable, although California Democrats are implementing "safe injection sites" to grant immunity to hardcore junkies. What's left? Where do you go from there?
2 year college tuition is effectively waived if your family makes under 6 figures (single filer: $90,000/joint filer: $180,000) or you're over 23. 4 year tuition is mostly paid by grants if you have a passing grade point average. I finished my bachelors with extra state grant money left over and only paid for graduate school. What "free college" means in 2017 is
4-6 years of free meals & utilities & housing, a fantasy Americans seem to think is common "overseas". Is that even theoretically viable, especially traditional resident campuses themselves become obsolete?
UBI? Does that not apply perfectly to what I said? How much further left can you possibly move when the last remaining frontier is UBI?
The strange thing about extreme leftists is they never want to call themselves that. They want the image of cool-headed centrists but they're hard-pressed to imagine even a fantasy world of their own design that's left of their actual parties.
They've hit a wall. This is as left as it goes pre-singularity.