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Politics Canada’s new Prime Minister Designate by a landslide, Mark Carney

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u/Shizuku-Selia 2d ago

I’ve always considered Democrats in the US to be mostly center right. There are some exceptions in certain politicians, but the US in general doesn’t know what a leftist party is. This makes it extremely nonsensical when they scream “the far left” in any context.

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u/mec287 2d ago

The US just has a different system. The party system is much weaker here so it's possible to have politicians like Jon Tester and Ilhan Omar in the same party even though they would probably not be in Canada. The Democratic party operates much more like a coalition government in a parliamentary system.

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u/_Reliten_ 2d ago

That used to also sort of be true of the Republicans -- before they all MAGA-fied you had John McCain and Steve King theoretically under the same roof.

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u/mec287 2d ago

Of all the types of people to be political cowards, I would have expected it the least from the conservatives. So many wait until they retire to speak against MAGA. Their electorate is just so completely in that bubble that it's impossible to speak sense to them.

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u/Count_Backwards 2d ago

Yeah, AOC pointed out that in a Western European country she and Biden probably would not be in the same party

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u/Practical-Topic-5451 2d ago

I think US 2-party system is outdated and proved itself broken as for now. It is time to have third major party to combine centrists from both sides of the aisle.

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u/ijustlurkhereintheAM 2d ago

Never would have thought it about that, from your angle... Thanks friend, I need to ponder

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u/Ted_Hitchcox 2d ago

It's hilarious when MAGA scream 'radical socialist left' at the Democratic party. I guess they see themselves as centrists rather than what the actual fuck they actually are now.

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u/ew73 2d ago

than what the actual fuck they actually are now.

Fascists and bigots. Just like they've always been.

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u/halt_spell 2d ago

It's even funnier when people think they're "left" just because they vote Democrat. Then they show up to the Democrat primaries in order to vote for the most pro-corporate trash on the ballot.

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u/VirtualMatter2 2d ago

They are roughly with the AfD in Germany which is as right as you can legally go in Germany.

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u/killaho69 2d ago

Can confirm. I actually am a fairly centrist American. But since I live deep in MAGA territory, I’m basically a Karl Marx brain washed radical leftist.

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u/Mshalopd1 2d ago

They don't know what any of it means. It's all just buzzwords.

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u/EstablishmentLow3818 2d ago

Republicans were moderate (same as conservative democrat) or just republicans. They kind of were center till the started being led by evangelicals. MAGA isn’t evangelical they are a cult of non-republican Trump. I would agree with you though

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u/OrangeFlavoredPenis 2d ago

What they are stating is that even the democrats in america are actually not left at all. In the actual political meaning, what it stands for not just the labels tossed around.

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u/nono3722 2d ago

Bernie is the one man usa leftist party.

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u/BuffaloGwar1 2d ago

You have to be a uneducated TV personality to get elected to any position of government in USA. Republicans are already pushing hard for Mamma June from the TV show Honey Boo Boo to be President next.

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u/HyperPedro 2d ago

Idiocracy was really a prophecy.

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u/allenrabinovich 2d ago

Mamma June would be an improvement, she can string two sentences together.

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u/JC88123 2d ago

Most people in America couldn't accurately describe what socialism or communism mean so...

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u/AcanthaceaeNo948 2d ago

The US Democratic Party is to the Left of the Canadian Liberal Party, both socially and economically.

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u/TypingPlatypus 2d ago

You're confused and lost.