I don’t think so. Serious answer.

You lumped together democrats, liberals, and leftists. If you go look up the whole of humanity’s political spectrum, that coalition you mentioned would cover about 2/3 of it, while american conservatives are a little circle off to the right.

I’m an American raised in a conservative catholic family in the 80s. I know that Lemmy feels like some kind of little leftist radicalization forum to somebody used to living in “real-ass non-coastal heartland America.” Like, for verification, ain’t nobody got time to watch all the games but I was watching the latter part of that Ravens@Steelers game and did you SEE that shit?

But I also love learning about the world. There are SO many people out there doing things SO many different ways, that lots of really helpful and successful things get tried in the real world with real people. Like if you’ve ever seen one of my posts that mention the bathrooms in Sweden, it’s simple and genius.

That doesn’t mean we change it tomorrow, it means it might be worth learning from and finding improvements. But that’s just one small example.

Big picture, I think I can put the problem two ways:

First is best practices. In past jobs where I was engineering support for manufacturing and operations, in that world terms like “benchmarking” and “continuous improvement” are commonplace. I don’t see the US doing that.

Second, on the political spectrum of this place, I notice that the two groups that get shit on the most, tankies and republicans, are basically on opposite ends. I think authoritarians and fascists might just suck.