thanks for getting back to me i share your opinion that we should point out clearly and repeatedly that both republicans and democrats are clearly to the right of the demographic center and i agree it seems like a minority opinion in the mass media but i still view it as a neutral opinion with this view the idea that the democratic party is almost evenly divided between left of center liberals and more centrist moderates seems irrelevant in the lead of an american left article i thought that text written in the prefaces to the encyclopedia of the american left might hold sway over other editors by serving to dispel disagreements about the scope lead and the most important subdivisions of topic that might be the case in german wikipedia and i think it's the case here in science and history articles but in politics perhaps no academic authority can ever hold sway over editors here this means that even the foundational defining terminology of us politics articles like this one with a potentially ambiguous scope might never be stable but i respond easily to baiting i bait other editors myself i can be sarcastic and i'm an infrequent but confident contributor if the article is improving now then it's probably best for someone like me to just shut up but if what i wrote makes sense to you there may be a real opportunity there at the moment for your npov ish minority opinion to count for a lot regardless of whether you agree with my opinions above i hope you consider contributing to the rfc there i can't give a recap beyond what i already wrote above