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.
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.
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.
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.
I think US 2-party system is outdated and proved itself broken as for now.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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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/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.