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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish20•4 days agoThe current Democratic party is basically the Reagan Republicans with more emphasis on civil rights. US politics have skewed further and further rightward for the last 50 years. On a global scale, Democrats are firmly center-right. Bernie Sanders and AOC are barely left of center for the rest of the world, but in US politics they’re “off the deep end.”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•4 days agoIt doesn’t help that the US has a two party system in practice and that people really vote for a person and not for their ideals.
The current Democratic party is basically the Reagan Republicans with more emphasis on civil rights.
US politics have skewed further and further rightward for the last 50 years. On a global scale, Democrats are firmly center-right.
Bernie Sanders and AOC are barely left of center for the rest of the world, but in US politics they’re “off the deep end.”
It doesn’t help that the US has a two party system in practice and that people really vote for a person and not for their ideals.
They’re center right afaict but ok