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Americans consider far right democrats as left wing instead of fascist collaborators until usa has a shift to communism overthrowing the entire political system and change the economic system nothing will ever improve

That's because the Democratic politicians in control have consistently framed it that way. DNC candidates are consistently backed by AIPAC & high tech AI data center money dedicated to protecting the status quo of corporate greed wealth inequality. But people are finally starting to catch on.

True.

The US could have had a Bismarck model health care system similar to Switzerland, considered one of the most stable in the world. Leftists hated that. They killed it and fight against it to this day. It's not your political positions, it's your lack of vision and understanding of complex issues.

True that! Universal education and healthcare, decent wages, childcare, and maternity/paternity leave offered for any job retirement benefits for everyone!

Except the UK, Russia, Belarus, Saudi Arabia...

Sadly even in other countries the right position is gaining traction and growing incredibly fast. here in the UK Farage and his right wing extremist party are likely going to win teh next GE and then welcome "Maga" 2.0 for the UK.

Exactly we share the same values for life, liberty and justice for all! Unlike the Fascist/Authoritarian Dictatorships around the world!

Precisely why ICE fills up Dilly death camp with foreigners who had come here to fool Americans into curtailment of their righteous kills. But Americans won't be fooled.

Centrist, AIPAC funded centrists like Pelosi, Schumer, Manchin, and Sinema are power bottoms for the GOP They are going down with Netanyahu They are going down with not demanding the Epstein Files In other countries, they'd be arrested for being compromised assets for Putin and Netanyahu

no that's not even true. Europe half the time threatens to go hard right for example. Now a few specifics like having universal healthcare are considered common sense. If you only mean the social safety net, then yea the u.s. sucks there on problems other countries have mostly solved.

Right

The USA: 2 parties, both on the same side.... and it's not yours.

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EXACTLY!! It is the problem of individualistic countries. There is no collectivist thinking, without sniveling about the unfortunate freeloading off U.S. When the term Democratic Socialism comes up, there is panic it’s a communist catchphrase. Yet watch “Robber Barons” show us how milking gets done!

Sadly, true

I watch Euronews jealously every day. And now that I found out that my having two grandparents born in Ireland allows me to obtain Irish citizenship, I can't stop thinking about it. But I won't give up on America. I just can't. I love it too much. Hear that Trump, you useless idiot!

We need to remember that "Leftist" is just a propaganda term that the magats and others throw around as a faux criticism of being considerate and kind to other humans.

I was accused of "not changing" during Trump's first term by a former friend who is now a part of the MAGA cult. I responded "you're right, I'm still not a racist, bigoted xenophobe." She hung up. We didn't change, the Republican party began to change under Reagan and the party will suffer.

Many much happier countries like Finland, Norway, Sweden...

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yep

And common decency.

Common sense is a scarce and rare commodity in the United States of America! It is completely absent from a large portion of the general population as well as the Republican Party!

Anyone that works to help the 99% is leftist! Go figure.

Most politicians in America called leftist are just Republicans with a hint of character.

Fuck the Reich wing

True. Plus, anyone who isn’t a right wing racist nut job is branded a leftist. Most people in America are still moderates or centrists. They are vilified by the right and frequently suspected by the left. Extremism is an awful thing. It leads to threats and violence over basically nothing.

What’s driving billionaires here is them being driven from saner countries. Other countries don’t pander to the pedophiles and republicans are tailor made for their purposes

SMDH It’s true!

It's probably worth remembering that universal healthcare has a broad meaning beyond just Bernie Sanders' Medicare for all. There are multiple models yet leftists in the US will only accept one and an extremely poorly strategized one at that.

My kid lives in Paris and regularly reminds me that if I lived there I’d be considered a centrist.

Political positions considered communist in America are just common sense in other countries.

No, socialism is *not* "when the government does stuff". (read "Critique of the Gotha Programme" to show why all that stuff isn't really socialism)

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Even countries identifying as centre right have social support structure the like of which the US has never seen... Germany for example. I won't even start on centrist France.

To be fair, the political positions those countries consider leftist are also kind of common sense, insofar as "We should listen to the experts who actually study the subject" is common sense. I don't know of a leftist political position that doesn't have objectively better outcomes for most people.

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And positions contrary to Leftist positions in the US are the opposite of common sense. There is a foreign agent at work here.

Yes. We in Canada look upon America and just shudder For us, your Democrats are right wing. Your Republicans are fascist.

And were also common in america from the 1940's to 1980's, financially speaking.

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They are common sense here too

Agreed. And to your example I would add, seeking health care while female.

It as a cooperative business. The corporate parent entity has to decide whether they want to shutter a plant & potentially create a new competitor or continue to operate the plant. If this were the law in the U.S. manufacturers would be forced to sell to the workers instead of shutting down. #Seize

Ahhh.... understood. Now I agree with your entire statement. Employees should have first right of purchase. I was envisioning a 1/6 like "seizure", which to me is never acceptable. I am sorry for the confusion, but happy to have met you.

employees. Those that do may not be able to afford traditional insurance coverage for their employees & adopt a self-insurance program “ERISA” that requires the employer to withhold coverage for expensive medical treatments to prevent bankruptcy of the plan. The film Philadelphia is loosely based

One of my favorite journalists, the late Molly Ivins, observed that the Canadian national discourse was based on the principle of “let’s not all get excited now“. We have no left wing. The Republican Party Platform for 1956 is to the left of any Democrat or Independent today. #WeAreFarRight

Clearly

Delicious.

As a centre right european, I can confirm, in most cases political positions considered Leftist in America are just policy consensus.

Want to piss off (D)? Show them videos of a truck with a confederate flag. Its all in the optics and the message. They used all of us to fight their political war.

That's how you know we are doomed.

Yeah, so Democrats: stop allowing GOP to create labels they like: Radical Leftists. Progressive is not a dirty word. It means you are looking forward, being innovative, leaving the staid, old ways in the dust. Polls say Dems aren't popular. Trump Hater won't work. Change the message.

Other countries don't have Maga idiots.

European "common sense" is just capitalism with a safety net. European rulers only granted healthcare and leave to stop actual workers' revolutions after WWII. Today, they are shredding those benefits through austerity. We don’t want a nicer bosses' state; we want to smash it.

Universal Free Healthcare?! But how would we make billions out of that? you filthy commie bastards. we’re building robots to replace you. you are so FREE.

No one in countries with socialized medicine is trying to create private insurance to replace it. But alas.

They certainly have an obsession with crooked, criminal B list actors.

They're considered right of center, in other countries.

There is nothing radical about single payer healthcare and social safety nets. We are the only developed nation that doesn’t have these things. Our taxes are supposed to mostly come back to our communities to make our lives better. If we cut our military budget by 75% we’d still spend the most

Stuff like public health care is just an administrative issue, not a policy one...

MAGA lack brains and common sense. The rest of the world sees it too.

Yes they are and thats why foreigners think we are crazy

Democrats backing genocide shows imperialism working as intended. But Trump isn't a "full fascist" to us. Fascism requires armed mobs smashing the working class in total crisis. He is a vicious right populist. The horror isn't a broken state, but capitalism functioning normally.

Unfortunately, not anymore. What happens in America is just one or two steps ahead (of Europe)...

Yes!!

Yes and we need to start bettering ourselves.

Both dominant Political parties in trumpieland would be considered far right and ultra far right in all 1st world Democracies. 🇮🇪🇪🇺

What exactly is the common sense approach to a man wearing a dress? Where is the common sense of pretending a person is of another gender?! What is the common sense of public theft? What is the common sense of freedoms of speech and thought being criminalized?

America the dumb ages🇺🇸🤪🫩

This "moderate center" is a dangerous illusion. Scandinavia isn't a magical middle ground; it is capitalist to the core, relying on global exploitation and now tearing up its own safety net through austerity. There is no stable middle—market crises push society either toward socialism or barbarism.

According to the political spectrum from each ideologies Part II: Right-Wing to Far-Right Wing: Right-Wing Populism

According to the political spectrum from each ideologies Part I: Center-Left to Left-Wing: Progressive Liberalism, Social Democracy & Democratic Socialism Centre-Left: Conservative & Moderate Liberalism Centre-Right: Liberal & Moderate Conservatism Right-Wing: Neoconservatism

Fuck the GOP all the way to hell

Good for Saskatchewan! However, Saskatchewan needed single payer health insurance due to the rough and tumble style of the Western Canada/Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (just kidding 🙂, however Flin Flon did have rough teams!).

The only “downside” is that insurance companies cannot massively profit by hurting their customers.

That might be why the US has such a problem.

What other countries? How overpopulated and overcrowded are they? Who is more important to long-term sustainability, those that live free and decide to live the 3 Rs without greed? Or those who succumb to ant-like society. Left, right, or green?

Common sense if the Leftist way. Blind submission is the Right Wing way.

So true. Other, happier countries.

Right because our histories are all so different Many countries have been around alot longer & have gone through more havoc & destruction, & haven't had a functioning democracy. Now ours is gone & we see things from their perspective I remember the 1st time I saw tanks in the Peruvian capitol

And law

Absolutely

Having been a loyal Dem voter in the general since I was old enough to vote (which has been a while), I did not vote for the "slower genocider" this election. I voted Dem down ballot. I was in a safe blue state so my vote didn't count for shit anyway cause we're stuck with the EC.

RIGHT?!? What Mike pence called “radical” over and over and over again last Sunday - other countries consider to be pretty conservative. We’ve been dragged to far the the right - that “moderate” is still a right-leaning ideology.

Why is there a label as inauthentic on your posts??

It doesn’t even have to be left to be leftist here. I consider the Dems as a party to be slightly/moderate right and the GOP to be extreme right.

It doesn't help that Republicans have had a 1500 to 0 advantage in radio and TV propaganda outlets for 40 years.

The most right-wing European politicians are still in favor of universal health care, mandated vacation time for everyone, gun control, and subsidies for public transportation. These are not controversial ideas anywhere but the US.

Even a minor tax raise on billionaires is considered communism here. The Red Scare has done more damage to the US than socialism would have.

When Americans talk about Bernie they act like he's from outer space, but all he's pointing out is things that have worked perfectly well in the rest of the world, for half a century.

Its does seem conservatives here embrace abject stupidity

We are either pro or anti-fascist. I'm anti-fascist cunts.

From 2016, but still relevant today.

They are commonly known as centrist positions in European countries.

At least we are now on the same page when it comes to tackling climate change in terms of food production, conserving drinking water and the energy transition.

I keep trying to think of a "radical left lunatic" position which would poll badly if asked about in a neutral way, and the only one I can imagine doing poorly is universal basic income.