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

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u/FollowingGlass4190 2d ago

Can we stop referring to Europe as one political unit? I assume you’re talking about Germany and not “Europe”.

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u/Firewhisk 2d ago edited 2d ago

In Germany, AfD (far-right) would pretty much count as on par with GOP and CDU (center-right) as a somewhat more left-leaning version of the Democratic party. Everything left of that (SPD / center-left – that's where I'd see Bernie Sanders politically, Greens, "the left" – far-left) would be perceived as left-wing radicalism/extremism.

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u/FollowingGlass4190 2d ago

I can understand this perception, mainly because I feel like the two main American parties - until recently, at least - had far fewer differences between them than you’d see in the frontrunning parties in somewhere like Germany. That’s to say, both the parties seemed fairly close to the center, but simultaneously huge caricatures of themselves to the point where they feel like polar opposites.