• Arkatakor@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      Well the bar is six feet under when you compare Democrats to Republicans. Democrats appears leftwing simply because Republicans went further to the right on the spectrum unfortunately. If you place Democrats in Canada or Western Europe, they would be considered a right wing government, or centrist if we stretch it.

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        3 months ago

        So much this. The only thing that remedied US Democrats in this sense was their LGBT stances being more progressed than in many Western European countries. Otherwise they are in the right/far right/neoliberal spectrum by European standards.

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      3 months ago

      At this point anybody can just download all the financial freedom they want, nobody is stopping us. So our votes only even matter for social issues anymore.