Is the Democratic Party left-wing?

[DemPGH]

To me it's a center party. The GOP is far right and the Green party would be a left wing party. I really, really wish the Greens could become even a little bit of a force - it would provide some gravity back the other way because the GOP over the decades has lurched everything far rightward. I think the Dems would like to be a left wing party, but they just aren't.

[DemPGH]

An example I neglected to mention, and which is very obvious and noticeable, is that Democrats make the same assumptions that are at the cornerstone of Republican economic ideology - that is, the absolute end-all-be-all sanctity of private sector capitalism, which I think has done more to create the income disparity and imbalance that we see than any other thing. The difference is that the Democrats want a little bit of regulation. Yay!

Imagine a USA where the Republican party is as small as the Green party and cannot affect policy at all. Imagine that the two dominant parties are Democrats and Greens with the Democrats being the center party. We'd basically be socialist. Union membership would be 95%. And so on. And the Democrats would lean left as opposed to right.