Kasz216 said:
JimmyDanger said:
To an outsider - I don't live in your country, but having ample access to Fox News, CNN etc - it seems the vitriol, rhetoric fuelled Republican machine is in full force like never before.
From their anti abortion (no exceptions) platform, to their opposition to government subsidised healthcare (I believe the US is the only developed Western "power" to lack some form of this) - it looks like a campaign fuelled with piss and vinegar, and lacking in compassion, or longterm worldview.
It's interesting to see some passionate debate among those of you who'll be voting this November.
While most of the worlds (developed Western Nations) moderate right wingers basically equate to your Democrats - or centre/moderate left - most developed Western Nations don't really have an equivalent to your far right wing Republican party - except on the fringes of public opinion.
So it's interesting to watch as an outsider/non US citizen.
Please carry on, and disregard any opinion (or assessment of public perception) that I may have presented as irrelevant. Because in the scheme of things - to someone not voting in your presidential elections - it is!
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That is totally a myth. There is plenty of europeon policy that is far right of the US Republican Party. It's just the dynamics are different, and people tned to focus on the few big conservative issues. Like healthcare policy.
If you don't believe me... look at the GFC... and how the USA handles that, compaired to how Europe is handling the Europeon Debt Crisis.
In the US it's money money printed everywhere and artificially lowered rates. While the Europeons have been pushing austerity measures that would make most republicans blush. Meanwhile, in the US QE3 is expected by the end of the year. Because we aren't growing enough... let alone europe's lack of fiscal action over actual regression in GDP.
Things like immigration law... a lot of the anti-muislim laws, this stuff would NEVER be passed, and people wouldn't even think to ask for it.
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and to suggest the left in europe are somehow much further left than our democrats is laughable.
you would be hard pressed to find a leftist policy that europe supports that the dems dont.
