Elaborating on my last post about American Politics.
People believe the Democrats are a Center-Left party because that is their origin. They used to have a large wing that supported small reformed like welfare and unions. That wing was purged from the party before the 1990, but it was truely chattered by the election of Bill Clinton who turned the Democrats into an overtly right wing party that could pretend to be left wing because they weren't as fascist as the GOP.