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[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 63 points 3 days ago (28 children)

The US has two parties: center-right and far right.

[–] coolusername@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

surely if you enable a genocide that makes you extreme right right? so it's extreme right and extreme right

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[–] DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml 70 points 3 days ago (13 children)

I don't understand how the Democrats in USA can be considered left-wing. Sure, they are more left than the Republicans, but in my eyes they certainly not left-wing.

[–] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I don’t know what country you are from or how your voting system works. But I will guess that your country has many parties and after the election, a governing coalition is formed.

In the US voting system, similar parties get punished by stealing votes from each other. So, in effect, we have to form our coalitions before the election and choose the single candidate that will stand for all of us. So, you can think of the Democratic Party as the Democratic Coalition, made up of some truly left-wing factions, as well as some not very left-wing or even centrist factions, and so our candidate will be much more watered down than what you’d see in a different system.

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Easy. We set the FBI on all the actual leftists decades ago. So the movement is having to slowly rebuild itself in the US. As a result Progressives are the farthest left things most Americans have experience with.

[–] daltotron@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

basically, the US is a one party system, but it has two parties

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

"The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them." - Julius Nyerere

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 27 points 3 days ago

You said it yourself, they are less far-right than Republicans, so Liberals get to pretend they are punks and rebels despite supporting the status quo.

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[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were ridiculously handsome dudes

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago

Sankara too, holy moly

[–] Fickle_Ferret@lemmy.ml 42 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The Left begins with anti-capitalism. If you aren't against capitalism, you aren't left.

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Libs are seething at this absolute correct take. If you're pro free market, you're a liberal and thats as 'left' as you'll ever be.

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 76 points 3 days ago (64 children)

Turns out, if you're further left than either realistic candidate (because FPTP), it makes it really easy to figure out who you should vote for. "I wonder if I should vote for the person who's not left enough for my liking, or the one is so far beyond that as to be the diametric opposite of left. Whatever shall I do?"

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, the electoral college isn't actually FPTP, it's even worse than that.

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[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Won’t even draw a hard line at genocide

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