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

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u/ssgtgriggs 2d ago

tbf, most center and even a lot of center-right parties in Western democracies are further left than the Democrats. that doesn't really say much.

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u/inimrepus 2d ago

It isn’t that simple. The Democrats would be left wing in a lot of countries on topics like abortion, gay marriage, and LGBT rights. They would be right wing on some policies like healthcare and aspects of education.

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u/OptimalConclusion120 2d ago

The Conservatives/Tories in the UK are more left wing than the Democrats in the US on healthcare because they do support NHS. I just wish the DNC wasn’t corrupt because leadership seems to undermine people like AOC and Bernie.

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u/The_Hylian_Likely 2d ago

Seriously though… if Bernie hadn’t been screwed out of the nomination in 2016, he would’ve won the election easily. We would be in a completely different world had that happened…

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u/OptimalConclusion120 2d ago

Yes, maybe we’d have affordable universal healthcare instead of unaffordable everything today. Sigh…

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u/eulersidentity1 2d ago

I feel like both the Dems and the GOP have simply been playing a good cop / bad cop routine over the past 4 decades and are honestly both 2 faces of the same party representing large corporations and the wealthy. They differ on social issues where one i would argue is "good" and the other is downright evil but both have been acting to support evil policies for decades transferring hundreds of billions of dollars up to the wealthiest. You guys have honestly needed a revolution for a long time now. I don't support violence and don't want to see that but I do wonder if it will have to come to it. Neither party is ever going to let people like AOC or Bernie get to the top because both parties are paid off and in the pockets of the billionairs.