• bigFab@lemmy.world
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    The left: we only want universal health care and education! Also the left: *spends inflated billions on high performance environmentally friendly children massacring missiles.

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          We need a rubber-band snap back of the Overton Window in America. Right-wing media has skewed the perception of politics to such an extent that conservatism is fascism and center-left is genuine conservatism.

          America would be so much better off if all the centrist Dems and “mOdErAtE” Republicans like Kissinger and Cheney and Romney, et. al. made the Dems the new conservative party while a new genuine Social Democrat or Green Party (not astroturfed by Republicans, Koch Brothers, or Russian interests) filled the void of a genine progressive-leftist faction.

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            Okay but they have no incentive to do any of that and instead have monetary incentive to shift right

            Do participate in bringing ranked choice voting to your state if you want a shift left in the USA. Competition will force the shift you are looking for

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            From what I’ve seen, we do have a lot more openly leftist people in America now, after decades of it being socially unacceptable. It’s just going to be a while before the older generations die off, and they’re the most likely to vote. Maybe if younger people actually turned out to the primaries things would be different.

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      You just read how Bernie (as lefty as they come in US) is opposing giving missiles to Israel, what the fuck are you talking about?

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          Everything is only exist in its own context. But I even clarified that we’re talking about US (if it wasn’t obvious by the fact that we’re talk about US politicians)