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(This is a lie internet lefties tell each other)

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What’s the lie?

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While it isn’t what they mean, I would say both parties are different flavors of far-right. Both are genocidal imperial warmongers that promulgate oppression of the marginalized in support of neoliberal capitalism. One does it openly while the other plays a game of taking credit for social changes it opposed and occasionally throwing a bone or two to those constituencies even while materially screwing them over in all other ways. And it will throw them under the bus the moment they can get away with it.

Really, they are part of the same team and they fight those opposed to them far harder than they fight each other. Good cop/bad cop for the same precinct.

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That Democrats would be considered right-of-center in other countries. They’re clearly a center-left party.

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They’re clearly a center-left party.

by what measure?

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Center-left? In what way? They are genocidal imperialists, they aren’t anticapitalist in any form.

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No, this is literally where the U.S. falls on a global political spectrum. The Democrats would be considered center-right in most other nations. Even by their own historical standards, they’re center right; if you took a Democrat from 1975 and transported them to 1995, they’d ask you why the party had adopted the Republicans’ fiscal policies.

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Well, from where you’re standing, everyone’s a leftie.

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