• cryomancer20x6@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I’m probably gonna get downvoted to hell for this, but I’m just gonna say it. Far left and far right more or less do not exist in the US as far as political parties are concerned. It all floats from barely left of center to moderately right. Again, this is the parties and not necessarily people. As far as parties are concerned, we don’t experience the real extremes in the US. For this viewpoint of “extremes”, I squarely blame Ted Turner for inventing the 24/7 news cycle which has enabled the two major parties to label the other as an extreme.

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      The US has only two parties: the neoliberals that actively want to harm you, and the neoliberals that only pretend to care about you.

      Far left and far right more or less do not exist in the US

      A good chunk of the GOP are literal nazis, it doesn’t get more far-right that that.

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        But if you had to vote for one, which do you choose?

        I’d choose the pretender, because they can’t do as crazy shit without fully blowing their cover. And every now and then they actually give you a token win.

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      Lmao, what. You think people that want to ban books, ban trans people, ban abortions, and fucking overthrow Democratic governments aren’t far right? Are you mental?

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      Non American here, you have no left wing parties. They’re far right and father right. Your far right party has like two centrists which get blocked from doing any good from the rest of the party.

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        I guess that is part of my point. We only have two major parties and they have both tried to present themselves as polar opposites when that is not the case. ETA: The European and US ideas of left and right (especially concerning conservative vs liberal) are very, very different