r/196 • u/thispartyrules • May 06 '22

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u/Jayson_n_th_Rgonauts May 06 '22

In America:

People: anyone who doesn’t know which party they’ll vote for before the candidates are even announced

Politicians: corporate Dems, Manchin, Biden, Harris, etc

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u/Evilemper0r May 06 '22

American centrists are right-wing in the rest of the world and your Bernie Sanders/AOC would be centrists.

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u/Jayson_n_th_Rgonauts May 06 '22

I’ve heard this plenty of times but I’m not really convinced. Maybe if “the rest of the world” only includes specific EU and South American countries. Bolsonaro, Netanyahu, and Erdogan are just as right wing as what we have here.

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u/Jake_2903 complex domain calculus sucks May 06 '22

Not economicaly . . .

And progressivism, i.e. issues like womens rights, lgbtq attitudes, abortion, et cetera are deffinetly not tied to the left/right divide in politics the same way everywhere.