Come now. Isn’t the fact that we don’t have a real left or center-left (or arguably even center) party condemnation enough without resorting to hyperbole?
Terminally online people don’t seem to understand they are out of touch with the broader electorate.
There are literal facisists being elected into Parliaments across Europe but people on lemmy/reddit keep jerking this to absurd claim that Democrats are far-right.
75% on the left? What the hell? From an American perspective maybe, but I’d wager closer to 40%. Too many centrists, neoliberals, conservatives and racist right wing populists.
Plus, it boils the entire k-dimensional space that is ideology into one single dimension. On social issues, I would argue Democrats (at least in the past few years) have shifted to become significantly more progressive than most European parties. On economic issues, though, obviously they’re not as left-wing as European counterparts, but still certainly not far-right. This whole “Democrats are far-right” is a silly hasn’t-touched-grass-in-ages leftist circlejerk.
There’s not exactly a shortage of things to complain about Democrats for – I could certainly complain about them for hours on end – but it’s important to actually criticize them for the things they oughta be criticized for, not the leftist equivalent of “I did that” stickers on gas pumps whenever gas prices go up.
And all of the above is still ignoring that economics alone is a k-dimensional space all its own, not just one single dimension.
Your Democrats would be center to far-right in many countries. Do better.
‘Far-right’
Come now. Isn’t the fact that we don’t have a real left or center-left (or arguably even center) party condemnation enough without resorting to hyperbole?
Not far right but definitely solid right wing
Terminally online people don’t seem to understand they are out of touch with the broader electorate.
There are literal facisists being elected into Parliaments across Europe but people on lemmy/reddit keep jerking this to absurd claim that Democrats are far-right.
European politics allows more than just two parties.
If you lined up European politicians from left to right, Europe would have 75% of their politicians on the left.
America would have 99% of our politicians on the right. There would literally be like three people standing on the left of center.
75% on the left? What the hell? From an American perspective maybe, but I’d wager closer to 40%. Too many centrists, neoliberals, conservatives and racist right wing populists.
Plus, it boils the entire k-dimensional space that is ideology into one single dimension. On social issues, I would argue Democrats (at least in the past few years) have shifted to become significantly more progressive than most European parties. On economic issues, though, obviously they’re not as left-wing as European counterparts, but still certainly not far-right. This whole “Democrats are far-right” is a silly hasn’t-touched-grass-in-ages leftist circlejerk.
There’s not exactly a shortage of things to complain about Democrats for – I could certainly complain about them for hours on end – but it’s important to actually criticize them for the things they oughta be criticized for, not the leftist equivalent of “I did that” stickers on gas pumps whenever gas prices go up.
And all of the above is still ignoring that economics alone is a k-dimensional space all its own, not just one single dimension.
Y’all haven’t been paying attention to politics in Europe lately… or you’re just in denial.
Edit: meant to reply to the person saying “far right”
Wouldn’t call them far right, but they definitely are fucking mocking their voters
Aside from trains and healthcare, most Europe is actually moved to be quite conservative. We’ll see how long they keep those.