I begin from a somewhat democratically engaged family, not less than on my father's side. There are some persons who were hardworking constituents of left-wing political parties in the Netherlands. Being a constituent of the SDAP (which subsequent became the Labor Party or PvdA) in the 1950s intended you were more socialist than the present Labor's constituents likely are, since Labor has shifted to just a little left from the center as asserted by Dutch norms, which entails way more left-wing than the U.S. Democrats anyway. However, being left-wing is, even at that time, not the identical as ...