• Tuukka R@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    Uh? What does this have to do with left and right? There’s no left in the US. (Okay, there is, but for what I know, there isn’t even one leftist party either in Senate or in Congress. But maybe I’m wrong and not everything is just republicans+democrats?)

    Still, at least the president has been either from Republicans or Democrats for the last century at least, so talking about “left vs. right” is kind of moot in this context of talking about US presidents. (Though, I don’t know, maybe one of the parties has been somewhat leftist before WWII? I have no idea if that’s been the case, because I was only born in the 1980’s and might be too young to know something I’m maybe assumed to know?)

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      2 days ago

      There is a left in the voting population, but neither of the two major parties are left, they are center-right, and far-right. The Democratic leadership cosplay as leftists, in order to keep an actual leftist party from gaining power.

      I might be misinterpreting Haloduder, but from what I see, the Democratic leadership are part of the current problem in the US. If we had an actual leftist party, Trump likely wouldn’t have gotten into office. The people want something different. We want someone that fights for the masses, instead of the rich and powerful, but all we have been offered for the last few decades is Religious Facists, or Religious Facists enablers.

      If we are going to call out the Red-Team for deporting people, torturing people, and pissing all over the Constitution, then we should also call out when the Blue-Team does that. But many liberals have yelled at me for pointing out the shortcomings of the false-left Blue-Team.