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The US is Politically to the Right of [Other] Democracies (lemmy.world)

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[–] Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My understanding is that issues like universal healthcare and paid leave for parents poll at around 80 percent. The reason the US doesn't have those things is not because the people don't want it. So the representation we elect are center right and don't actually support the will of the people. They represent the will of their donors.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

I agree with what you say, but we should also be very careful of expressions like "center right".

If we have issues where the vast majority of the people agree, that should by definition be the center. However, quite clearly that's not how the words are used. Instead, mass media and politicians always refer to everything in reference to the two-party system, when representatives of both parties are actually way off in the fringes, at least some of the time, on issues like these.