Draconic NEOFeb 28

US Democrats are not leftists

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Show threadapfelwoiSchoppenFeb 28
The Overton Window is known to many but still most can’t see how it shapes acceptable politics. What’s left and right in the US is shifted so far right from most other democratic countries.
Show thread01011
I don’t think the US is the outlier that people think it is. Other “democratic” nations are undergoing the same political issues at the behest of the same economic interests.
Feb 28 at 6:15amWeb
Show threadWildmimicFeb 28
With the major difference that those nations have a lot more social programs to combat poverty and homelessness, and have health insurance that doesn’t bankrupt people. That really helps with social cohesion and prevents larger scale radicalization.
Show thread01011Mar 1
And yet we’re witnessing a similar large scale shift to the right across many of those same unnamed (but presumably European) nations.
Show threadWildmimicMar 1
Which is the working of targeted propaganda spread by the legacy and social media and not an innate function of “democratic” nations.
Show thread01011Mar 2
The propaganda that you speak of has much deeper cultural roots than any democratic principles in any of these nations.