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Why has the world gone to shit?
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this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2024
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People keep electing conservative fascists like morons
America, in particular, doesn’t exactly have an alternative.
To wit,
You take a look at any president since the Carter administration, and they have all been right of centre. Obama was solidly centre-right. Biden is on the threshold of being fully right-wing.
About the only people who sit anywhere to the left are people like Bernie Sanders and AOC, and in most other countries they would be considered solid centrists and milquetoast moderates. They are not extreme-left in the least.
America has no left-wing politicians, much less any on the far left.
But on the far right? pretty much the entire GOP is sitting there with their asses hanging off the fascist end of the political horseshoe.
Your view of the political spectrum is heavily skewed to the left if you think Obama was center-right.
That would include most of Europe and every other fully democratic country, then.
America is nearly entirely right-wing with its political system. Pretty much no-one is “on the left” as you would see in other countries, because in America they would be politically un-electable as “filthy communists” despite being only moderately on the left.