Official 2020 US Election: Democratic Party Discussion

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Bofferbrauer2 said:

uran10 said:

I just want to say one thing to this and that's that you're giving the republican party and even the dem party a bit too much credit imo. You're more spot on with the dems, but I'd honestly call them more of a economically right wing party, while being culturally left wing (atleast on the surface), the republicans however, are legitimately far right wingers. I'm not talking everyday republicans walking the streets, the citizens. I'm talking look at their elected members. Outside of Rand Paul (who is pretty bad on domestic issues), and Mike Lee, the rest of the party is well...... yea.

Well, right wing is pretty narrow and pretty far to the right already. Just look at Germany for instance: AFD is right-wing, but not far-right, that would be the NPD. However, there's a very substantial overlap between the two. In fact, right wing parties are most often far-right with some more centrist policies thrown in and with the most blatant racism, xenophobia and the like curbed down a notch to not face legal troubles or other kinds of backlash. And in that regard, I consider this the perfect description of the GOP right now.

As for the Democrats, they include pretty much everything that's on the left from the GOP, so everything from center-left to left wing. But the establishment Democrats are pretty much all centrists to center-right, even culturally for the most part (it just looks much more like left wing since it's left from the GOP) and they are those who have been shaping most of the party until now. Bernie, the squad, millennials and Gen Z however are for the most part way to the left of where the Democratic party is right now, and are trying to pull the party more and more to the left. And that pull will continue over the next years.

Well, just as we have this discussion about the positioning of US political parties, it looks like AOC has entered the chat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYTtaStPlsc