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KungKras said:
vivster said:
It's kinda disheartening to see that progressives go AGAINST other Democrats to force shit to happen when the Democrats are already supposed to be the progressives. Just shows how far to the right the Democrat establishment actually is.

The democrats are to the right of many European right wing parties.

Just goes to show how warped politics in America has gotten. I'm happy that you guys have the internet now and are exposed to how things look in the rest of the world. That means your media and politicians can't trick you anymore (even though they still pretend that they can).

With historical context, the policies that Bernie Sanders for example proposed aren't even that radically left wing. It's much closer to FDR's policies, which is a shame that politics in the US has swung so far to the right now that something as globally accepted as universal healthcare is hard to accomplish. However, and argument can be made that the US is this way cause of corporatism, which is an integral problem to the whole political system.