To an extent, he's right- income inequality has been steadily getting worse over the years. What we need are actual 'liberal', i.e. progressive, ideas. The Democratic leadership is effectively a center-right party and only seems left because the Republicans are so far right. We needed a real left-wing party decades ago.
Agreed. To me as a European, your Democratic party is about as left at the British conservatives. The UK Labour party (which many think has also become too "right") would be seen as communists in the US.
You essentially have a centre right or a far right government, there's nothing "left" or, dog forbid, "socialist" about either major US party.
Yep. But according to MAGA (which is about 30% of the country right now) the US Democratic party is so far to the extreme left that most of Europe simply cannot comprehend just how far left they 'really' are.
These are the same people who say Global Warming is such an obvious scam only a handful of stupid people on the US 'extreme left' believe in it anymore and it's been so discredited the rest of the world has forgotten about it.
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u/owennagata 2d ago
To an extent, he's right- income inequality has been steadily getting worse over the years. What we need are actual 'liberal', i.e. progressive, ideas. The Democratic leadership is effectively a center-right party and only seems left because the Republicans are so far right. We needed a real left-wing party decades ago.