Health insurance takeover and adding over $2 trillion to our national debt in just 2 years to name a couple. These are extreme, but of course, no one here would ever admit these as being extreme because, like I said, it's a matter of perspective...and your perspective is anything done by liberals is never extreme...I have a feeling your response will exemplify my OP perfectly...
You know why they need to raise the debt ceiling right?...to pay interest on our current debt...does this make any sense to anyone? Because it is completely irrational and unsustainable. This cannot be argued.
I would
love it if there were some prominent leftist extremism on the national stage. :biggrin1: Compared to how far right this nation has swung, I'm a flaming pinko commie! I'm perfectly comfortable with the fact that I am quite a bit more liberal than like 90% of this nation.
Sadly neither example you provide is even really leftist, let alone leftist extremism. Mandating that everyone buy private insurance is hardly the stuff of liberal fantasy, and in fact the very same type of plan was proposed years ago by. . .
the Republicans.

The Clinton/Obama/DLC-style faction of Democrats have shifted so hard to the center that many of their policies are stuff Republicans ten-twenty years ago would have frothed at the mouth over. If you want an idea of what a leftist healthcare system would look like, it'd have to be a public single-payer system that covers a predetermined "basic health needs" package and
eliminates private insurance from that realm. Private insurers can supply deluxe packages for the rich if they want, but they no longer have control over your typical non-rich person's basic health needs. In order to keep the medical loss ratio as high as possible, claim-denial services would be done away with and basically anything prescribed by a certified physician that's covered by the public plan would be approved. Counter-measures such as delayed compensation for the immediate cost of the deductible would be introduced in order to stem abuse of the system. Govt and doctors and consumer representatives would get together periodically to set profitable yet fair prices on each procedure covered by the public plan. We'd digitalize patient records and fire most the secretarial staff. Devise methods of subsidizing higher education + training so that our doctors, to the extent possible, don't head into their jobs already hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt (thus driving down costs). Etc. This is where a truly
extreme liberal health program would have to start. The TP's droning that every Democratic policy is an example of deranged leftwing extremism does not make it true, it just means that they like to loudly repeat stupid things. There's a stark limit to the "it's all perspective" rebuttal, and if you studied the ideology a bit I think you'd see this.
As for the debt unless you're more specific I can't really say that adding to our debt is idiosyncratic of either party, as they both seem to do it with glee. An extreme leftist would be taxing the piss out of corporations and the wealthy, so at the very least there would be some added revenue to make up for that debt. The right prefers to spend uninhibited while lowering taxes, which is as good a recipe for going belly-up fast as I've ever seen.