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[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 98 points 8 months ago (4 children)

USA: we don't have a left. Democrats are at best center.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 46 points 8 months ago

USA has a left. They almost never win at the ballot box, though. You have to find them in the streets.

[–] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You don't have a right either though, at least not a right on the democratic spectrum.

All you've got are "unacceptable" and "fascism".

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

This. Republicans and Democrats have been moving steadily to the right for the last 40 years. So now, Democrats are where Republicans were in the 1980s: boring corporatists who are best friends of banks, insurance and pharmaceutical companies. We haven't had a real progressive president since Jimmy Carter and that was 50 years ago.

Meanwhile, the right has moved all the way into an insane asylum. Their best friends are Russian oligarchs, fascists, religious nutjobs and civil war re-enactors, who communicate on Twitter and "Truth Social" and call themselves "Republicans."