Content
@
0 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
Chainleft
@chainleft
I've been thinking why American conservatives call AOC or Bernie far left, because looking at their policy stances, they're textbook center-left. Two theories: 1. Conservative media props up social stances a lot to avoid talking about economic stances. On that front, Dems are a proper left party indeed. 2. Maybe they look with a lens of USA population distribution on the spectrum, rather than the lens of policy stances. It's true: After decades of redscare propaganda, USA is mostly a right-wing country (in terms of economic & foreign policies). So these politicians does seem further left compared to the average. (obvious but cynical answer is they could be trying to shift Overton Window to further right, but I'm trying to give benefit of doubt)
7 replies
1 recast
8 reactions
Chainleft
@chainleft
Btw @lsn I considered this /geopolitics although all the politicans here are American. Reasons: 1) Mention of foreign policy 2) There's focus on the differentiation of American politicans' labels vs their counterparts in other countries. I see the cast isn't curated in the main feed while less interacted/time casts are so I want to clarify.
1 reply
0 recast
1 reaction
Leo
@lsn
aha diligent spotting; apologies. i don't think this one really does either of those two things tbh seemed to me to be 95% /politics
1 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
Chainleft
@chainleft
WDYM the chart has foreign policy right in the middle (and as I said that's the one that causes the difference in my opinion on why they should be considered centrist). Or do you think that mention isn't sufficient for /geopolitics ?
2 replies
0 recast
1 reaction
Chainleft
@chainleft
I'm just realizing this cast is curated into /geopolitics but the one above isn't. Just looks very, very odd. https://warpcast.com/asenderling.eth/0x58eb0e90 Let me know if you have something specific against the points I'm making, it'd be good to know transparently.
1 reply
0 recast
1 reaction
Leo
@lsn
Hidden now, if it wasn’t already Couple of reasons why this could have shown up for you - it wasn’t previously hidden because we missed it due to it not showing up high in main feed (chrono would help) - it wasn’t previously hidden bc we aren’t active enough - it was actually hidden, but if you click into /geopol from your notifications, then hidden casts often show up, particularly if they’ve engaged with you
1 reply
0 recast
1 reaction
