US Politics |OT|

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Ryuu96 said:

Hm, the most common "far-left" I see are those who take the stances of defending authoritarian regimes because they dislike America, they'd be those on the left who will take a bullet for people like Putin, defend Russia's invasion of Ukraine, all because America sees Russia as their enemy and vice versa, it basically comes down to "America bad so their enemies must be good" and that's the extent of their logic. Maybe I see those people far more than the descriptor above though because I'm heavily invested in the Russia/Ukraine war.

Still, I would say they are overall less bad than those on the far right, simply because the far right also share the same stance when it comes to Russia but they also want to take down everyone different from them too in their own countries, they will go after anyone who isn't a straight white male, so on a balance of numbers, the far right affect more people than the far left and the far right don't defend Russia only because they think America is bad, they defend Russia because they see that authoritarian regime as a utopia that America should follow.

Indeed, the far-left is greatly outnumbered by the far-right. I'd say by a factor of at least 10 in pretty much any democratic country. The far-left is commonly so small that it isn't politically relevant, meaning as a political party it either fails to clear the threshold to get into the parliament or it gets just barely in.