Framing. Is it possible to substitute 'people' for 'left;?

[peacetalksforall]

This is the headline I just read.

It says - PERU POSED TO SHIFT LEFT?

Can 'left' be redrafted to 'people'?

The headline could say PERU POSED TO SHIFT TO THE PEOPLE?

Why not associate left with people?
While associating right with corporations, barons, and reverends?

Instead of saying a left leaning organization, say people leaning organization.

We must put our foot down. We don't have to accept the insinuation of communism or socialism as it applied to the U.S. in the 1930's to now.

The leaders of the right are the ones who have made China, where communism still reigns, into their best financiers, corporate partners, suppliers.

In the U.S., we have no Left Party, no People Party, but what we, the people, want is everything that is for the people - justice, rights, opportunity, fairness and to retain what we were taught of, for, by the people.

So, starting with phrasing, see if it will work to correct anyone who demeans by using the word 'left' and substitute 'people' whenever possible?

I'm a leftie. No, cancel that. I'm a peopleie.

[ThomCat]

1. Using the term People instead of Left sounds vaguely

communist, so it would never fly as a way of positively framing anything. This is yet another way the right has neutralized populism.

[peacetalksforall]

4. I say 'people' in a 21st Century way. Chavez is reportedly, attacking

poverty, improving the literacy rate, importing doctors, training the little people, creating opportunities - improving the lives of those who've been put down in the past - those who didn't benefit from the oil wealth in the past. Bolivia elected one of the little people. A female was elected in Africa.

The (little) people of the world are recognizing that their counterparts in other countries are just like them - subject to and suffering from the same war loving, earth stealing, and gap making leaders.

To stick to a 20th Century association of People seems crazy. There is a revolution going on.

I know that all Moslems don't hate me.

If we can't know the difference between politicians and corporations who want to own our water and make us obey all the laws while they profit from the earth under the feet of the little people and break laws, than we are lost.

Why take the soaring powers of communicating with each other and not change things?

We don't have to suffer claustrophbis from century old associations.

Viva the people revolution from the grass roots. Not from someone's scheme.

I just see it differently. I think I see it with hope. My only bright ray is the people.

[Orsino]

2. Not with the corporate media still drowning out reason.

Seeking "balance," they will insist on relegating democratic principles to the far left.

[sandnsea]

3. Except for one little detail

There really is a "left" in politics which hasn't always worked out for "the people" either. Corruption can happen in any government and when "the people" have no control over their own economic destiny because "the left" government controls it all, it's a recipe for corruption too.

So while I get what you're saying, sometimes moving left really does mean moving towards the people; at the same time, sometimes it doesn't.