Hold on to your butts.

  • whodrankarnoldpalmerOP
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    11 months ago

    You know, r/politics. The “radical leftist echo chamber,” according to its most normal users.

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      11 months ago

      When I left it was arguably a leftist echo chamber, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Democrats and liberals left en masse with the changes over the past year or two

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        11 months ago

        You said “leftist.” What do Democrats and liberals have to do with anything?

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          11 months ago

          Idk man. I have always lumped left / democrat / liberal together, and right / conservative together

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            11 months ago

            Democrats in the US are centre-right. “Normal” Mitt Romney/GWB Republicans are far right. The current GOP is, without a drop of hyperbole, full-on fascist.

            There is not any leftist political coalition to speak of in the US. Bernie Sanders is about as extreme as they come in the US- and he’s maybe center-left at his most extreme.

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              Bernie Sanders is about as extreme as they come in the US- and he’s maybe center-left at his most extreme.

              This is based on policies he pushes for, right? I always got the impression he would push as far left as possible, which with today’s democrats means “center left at best”.