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How Americans describe politician's views
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Biden is a centrist at best. Far left my ass. Our view of the political spectrum is so warped.
74% describe Obama, someone that literally wrote a pro-deregulation op-ed in The Wall Street Journal while in office, as left wing.
This is what people are talking about when they say there's no left-wing representation in America.
He would be considered a solid right in Canada.
I considered him to be solid right when he started his career. His politics is definitely not far right, and it's leaned more left over time. But I would consider him right, except the far right have gone so off the deep end. We also don't have like... An anarchist party or any real far left politicians in America.
That's most of the reason I said "at best". He's much farther right than the right seem to think he is. Everything is messed up here.
When you look at the numbers, you can gather that most far left propositions probably come from maga supporters.
You can derive from that that only 4% of non maga consider Sanders as far left.
Maybe the graph should be corrected and fascists' views disregarded.
Fascists should not and cannot be included in any reasonable political system.