[@mdk] I'm not trying to suggest that you are a racist or a sexist and I apologize if I came across that way. A person makes a political choice for their own reasons and those are always going to be nuanced.

Things I like about the left.
When I stop to think about it, it is surprising how many things I have to define as better than the GOP position.

Healthcare. Universal healthcare is a left wing idea in America. The democrats aren't really committed to it (maybe Sanders and a few others) but at least they are somewhat active in expanding things like Medicaid. I deal with people everyday who wouldn't be in the dire straits they are if they could afford regular preventive care. I'd personally like to see a system like Australia or Canada use. I don't think it will happen in my lifetime.

Women's health. Every time I see an attempt to make access to women's healthcare services more difficult it is always the right doing it. Access to these services including abortion services is important to me and the left is the one not tearing it down.

Social programs ditto. I know we would all like to be in fantasy land with 100^ employment but I don't think the threat of starvation is a good motivator.

Protections for lgbtq. Again nothing doctrinally, prevents the right from being more supportive of this but it seems to me that harmful bills more frequently come from this quarter.

Globalism. I want America to play a leading role in the world. I like free speech and other such American notions. This means engaging with allies, NATO, not threatening to defund the UN ect. Globalism is a literal dirty word on the far right and I worry about a retraction of American influence. For all the hype bout Islam being a threat to the west I'm much more concerned about a collapse in china because the government can't satisfy the expanding middle class and opts to invade Taiwan for jingoistic reasons. I realize that that puts me out of step with someone like Sanders who seems to want a retraction of influence for different reasons than his right leaning counterparts.

Economics. I don't believe that totally free markets are a good idea. Id like to see some form of sane financial regulation and it seems to me that such regulation is to be found on the left.

Global Warming. I don't want to fuck the planet up. I know a number of climatologists who regularly need to be talked off chairs. The left dosent go far enough on this, but at least they are willing to look at the science and agree that it exists. Always a plus. 

Immigration. I've covered this. Not calling for the blanket deportation of millions of people, building giant impractical walls. Ect.