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Democrat who caved on shutdown says Chuck Schumer knew all along
(newrepublic.com)
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*European politics NOT "world politics".
Not everyone is following the same trends and left/right are relative to the society in question.
We must always be extremely careful spreading Eurocentric notions as being "the world's view" as the history of that type of thinking is extremely ugly.
Apologies, anything you would suggest for better format of talking about it?
Yes, I would use the term "European politics". If that makes you go "wait that sounds weird", then don't make that comparison.
Sorry but this is a huge pet peeve of mine. Too many people assert that what is true mostly fir Western Europe is the case for all nations and that's silly at best.
Nah, it's really important to have external framing otherwise you start to accept the present Overton Window as just the way things are. Things like 32 of 33 developed western democracies don't have the problems the US does with healthcare. Sure, those other countries aren't the US, but that's kind of the point, and still relevant to conversations about US healthcare.
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