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Chainleft
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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)
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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.
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Leo Nasskau
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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
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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 ?
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Leo Nasskau
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Yes basically, It’s almost entirely about US politics and foreign pol is not the main (I would say a ‘small’) input into the arg if you said smth like “<opinion about US politicians> … the perception of this is mostly driven by foreign policy because X” Then by all means But that isn’t very clear in the cast Wdyt?
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Chainleft
@chainleft
Fair. I think those points were implicit but were there. Some replies seem to make it slightly more explicit. But overall I agree it wasn't clear in my cast itself. https://warpcast.com/0xluo.eth/0x2f377013
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