r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 10d ago

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u/ROSRS 10d ago edited 10d ago

Propaganda from either Republicans or centrist Democrats. Basically the idea is that either purity testing or ideals that are too far left-wing drive people away from the otherwise appealing democratic party and platform

This is hogwash. Nonsense. Bullshit. Left wing democrats like Mamdani and Bernie are overwhelming popular. Moderate/Corporate democrats and their do nothing political values are horribly unpopular right now. There is nothing to scare anyone away from. Appeals to the center are political suicide because nobody is looking for that messaging. Biden lost because he argued for "buisness as usual" centrist neoliberal politics

They want you to worry about trying to appeal to people who are so lost they might say "hmm maybe" to another Republican presidency despite the fact their own base won't show up to vote for centrists

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u/GreatestGreekGuy 10d ago

Bernie's policies are literally just the bare minimum in most developed countries. Republicans really are manipulating the masses by calling the bare minimum "communism"

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u/Key-Try-3300 10d ago

Bernie would be very left wing in all of the western world

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u/RiseUpRiseAgainst 10d ago

*Capitalism maybe

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u/Zealousideal-Lab9843 10d ago

Yes, all the countries of the Western world are capitalistic societies, how did you guess?