• Pectin8747@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Most redditors will say that democrats are better than republicans, but that does not make someone a leftist. Democrats in America are center right at best and ripe with a ton of corruption of their own. Noticing that both parties are evil and we need economic reform beyond what either of them offer is the entrypoint to crossing the centerline

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      9 months ago

      This. Americans have been so brainwashed by the corporatists that they don’t even realize up from down. JFC, protect your working class already.

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      9 months ago

      That’s kind of true from a moral viewpoint. But those are of no good because they don’t change anything.

      The Democratic Party is a spectrum from social democratic to pretty conservative politicians, no fascists.

      I think Bernie Sanders is quite on the left even by European standards. But he’s not a communist.

      If you want more left politics vote progressive Democrats in every election, especially those local and regional ones. That’s the way to get a left party in the USA. And that will make a more left democratic candidate for president possible and eventually some left governers and a left President.