> The result of my experience, which you question, is: not a single other nation would characterize the US Democratic party as “left wing” You sound like you

> The result of my experience, which you question, is: not a single other nation would characterize the US Democratic party as “left wing” You sound like you didn't even go outside Europe. There are two scales, nationalism-globalism, and capitalism-intervention. Most countries have very little difference between their capitalism-intervention side, because there's only one country where someone who supports free markets and capitalism could move to, this results in the right wing of all the countries becoming purely nationalist supporting govt intervention facing globalist left wing supporting their kind of govt intervention. For example my dad in my home country has very little opinion on capitalism/intervention scale. But on the nationalism/globalism scale he has a strong opinion. If I were to describe the economic policies of the Democratic party, he wouldn't truly form an opinion, but the moment I will start describing the social policies he would immediately understand it and call it 'the leftist party'.