The American Right and Anti-Intellectualism

[KungKras]

Kasz216 said:

KungKras said:
Reading about american politics is always fun, because it is so different from europen politics. And opinions seem to be so polarized when you don't have a broad spectrum of parties to choose from.

I always found it funny that you guys keep using the term "left" when talking about the liberal party, even though you only have right (liberals) and far, far right (republicans). I know they're called left because they are the left wing of the availible political parties, but it's fun to imagine what say, a social democratic party would be called if one was ever formed xD

Does it even exist any other parties than the liberals and the republicans? I mean, there used to be a wiggs party before, right? Would the american system support more than two parties if more were ever to be formed?

That's a weird statement considering the Euro debt crisis... and europe following through with what would be considered an "Ultra Conservative economics plan that could only be devised by someone from the Teaparty."

Austerity in europe right now is being held up as a proof that the stimulus was right, and that Europes right wing economic policies are why it hasn't recovered.  (Ignoring of course, that at the same time, things were still going way downhill with the implentation of the stimulus... despite the fact that government spending is one of the metrics used to figure out the all important GDP.)

What I was talking about is, that most european countries have some sort of far right, conservative, liberal conservative, liberal, as well as center right, center, environmentalist, center left, social democratic, far left, and even communist parties, and these parties are relevant enough to be represented in the parlaments of thier respective nations (maybe not all I mentioned in one country though, but that's what the political spectrums usually looks like).

I always got the impression that the republicans were far right, because, from what I've read they are against universal health ensurance and for the healthcare being totally private, while public healthcare is a standard in most european countries, even the more right-leaning ones, like the UK.

What ultra-conservative economics plan are you talking about? Is it something made by the European Union? The Euro currency cooperation?  The stimulus packages to greece?