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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
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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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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
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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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