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sc94597 4 days ago
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IkePoR said:
Chris Hu said:

Well, both the Democrats and Republicans have shifted further to the right so politically speaking the left doesn't really exist in the US anymore not on a national level anyway. 

How has the right shifted, exactly?

More importantly, how the HELL have the left shifted right?  On a national level, the democratic candidate hinged her entire campaign on abortion and LGBT.

On economics it is certainly true. The Democratic Party (pre-Reagan) used to be a coalition of FDR-esque urban social liberals and rural left-populists in the vein of the Farmer-Labor Party. 

Now it is a coalition of Conservative Liberals (starting from Bill Clinton but completed with the fleeing of Bush Republicans, aka "Never Trumpers"), Social Liberals (Elizabeth Warren/Kamala Harris), with a third Social Democratic wing (AOC/Sanders), but the social democratic wing is treated like a minor partner and marginalized, and is much less left-wing than the older left-populists used to be. 

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