Unfortunately, Elise misses the reality of today's "compromised" discourse and, ultimately, the governing results plaguing the nation for too many decades.  She succumbs to the false notion that any "far left" even exists.  In the current media land "far left" includes any social programs, i.e., social security, veterans healthare, food stamps, ad nauseum.  The "Center" has been moved so far right as any remaining "far left" is almost invisible.  Decades of media brainwashing to include every hare-brained false anti-government rant and policy by the "right" resulting in absolute lies offered as truths.  The only Centrists found in Congress are the completely compromised DINO(Demcrats-In-Name-Only) led by the Old South contingent of Carter and Clinton which bought into the deregulation and free market garbage of the Corporate Oligarchy.  All led by the Military Industrial Complex of never ending war.  No compromise exists when the very survival of nation and citizens are at stake.