@Haraea Hi. I'm a little left for an American (lol). Here I get called a far left fringe nutcase, but in Europe I'd probably be seem as fairly moderate. Good to see you.

@StevenDBT
Good to see you too !
I have always had trouble understanding american political views because of this. Everytime we talk about it in class I'm like "yeah... Where's the left ? Like the real one ?"
It's nice to finally find a leftist person from America.

@Haraea Basically leftism died in 1944 when FDR didn't back Henry Wallace for another term as his Vice President. Wallace was a socialist, and the Democratic Party, which at the time was prominent in the South and in New York (home of Wall Street) didn't want any damn socialists on the ticket. Then FDR died, we got Truman, and he dropped the A bomb on Japan, not so much to end the war, but to gain the upper hand on Stalin. After that's it's been all down hill for leftists in America.

@StevenDBT
Kinda sad but interesting ! Do you feel like it seems to change, or...? Here in France I think it's a little better, but not that much either. The socialist party's dead, and I feel like a lot of people define themselves as "leftists" but can be at the end extremely sexists, ableists, racists and all the rest. It becomes very pernicious : it's all about image.