• Eiri
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    The US has two parties: center-right and far right.

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          That Democrats would be considered right-of-center in other countries. They’re clearly a center-left party.

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            Center-left? In what way? They are genocidal imperialists, they aren’t anticapitalist in any form.

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              They want to use the power of government to reduce the harms of capitalism, via minimum wages, social safety nets, child tax credit, subsidizing more environmentally friendly energy production and electric cars.

              No they are not as far left as you and the people you talk to online, I didn’t say that. You are allowed to want different policies. You’re just incorrect to call them right wing.

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                minimum wages, social safety nets, child tax credit, subsidizing more environmentally friendly energy production and electric cars.

                Republicans have also votes for bills supporting all of the above.

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                They want to use the power of government to reduce the harms of capitalism, via minimum wages, social safety nets, child tax credit, subsidizing more environmentally friendly energy production and electric cars.

                1. No they don’t, lol

                2. That isn’t “center-left,” that’s center-right.

                No they are not as far left as you and the people you talk to online, I didn’t say that. You are allowed to want different policies. You’re just incorrect to call them right wing.

                Leftism starts at anti-Capitalism.

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                  Ok I don’t expect you to see it but this is exactly why I said it’s a lie that online lefties tell themselves. Globally, in real life politics, yes you absolutely can be center-left without demanding the overthrow of Capitalism.

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                    What do you think leftism even is? An arbitrary vibe? Globally, Marxism-Leninism guides one of the most populous countries in the planet.

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        No, this is literally where the U.S. falls on a global political spectrum. The Democrats would be considered center-right in most other nations. Even by their own historical standards, they’re center right; if you took a Democrat from 1975 and transported them to 1995, they’d ask you why the party had adopted the Republicans’ fiscal policies.