Do You Think Obama is a Socialist... Do You Care?

[Rath]

HappySqurriel said:

Rath said:
Obama is liberal by UK standards (still not liberal compared to many continental countries it must be said) but the republican party is just so scarily right.

I don't know of many Western countries with a political divide quite as wide as America.

What is so scary about the Republican party that could not be balanced out by an equally scary position by the Democrat party?

Well I'm sure the evangelical right do see the Democrats positions as largely scary - things like pro-choice and gay rights probably do scare them - however of course to me (a moderate liberal, at least in my country) the Democrats aren't scary at all, more like moderates.

Scarily right-wing however is in comparison to the governments of the majority of Western countries, there aren't that many major political parties in the Western world that are as right wing as the Republican party.