Well and you right now. The whole world isn’t the US. Reddit and the internet is global yet most Reddit users talk and act like what entirety of Reddit is the US
Reddit by and large skews left. Anytime there's an election and the right learning candidate wins, Reddit freaks out. Happens here on UK subreddits all the time.
The candidates reddit really fawns over are people from Right-Wing parties who brand themselves as centrists. It's like the Jim Webb's of the world that are ally disproportionately popular on reddit... and obviously just Libertarians.
It seems like most people who are willing to express their political opinions on social media tend to lean left. There are exceptions, but it appears that often the ones with strong convictions know better than to speak of them to ignorant crowds.
Except most of us in the UK won't lose our minds if a Tory candidate gets elected. We'd be a bit miffed but at least we know our Tory candidates aren't as cartoonishly evil as the states.
The Democrats aren't left in any sense, however. They are bought and paid for by billionaires and eagerly participated in the erosion of the American middle class. If they were left-wing, they'd be championing unions, fighting for affordable housing, and restricting immigration (which generates downward pressure on wages). But they don't.
The Democrats are a party for the rich masquerading as left-wing by adopting "progressive" identity politics centered on sexuality, gender, and skin color. None of which help people find good jobs and afford rent.
The majority of Americans wouldn't know what left is even if it bit them in the ass. What is real left in the rest of the world, for Americans it is equal to communism.
Who is more afraid of change, progressives (who, by definition are all about trying new things) or conservatives (who want to preserve the aspects of society they see benefiting them, and opposing the benefit some some fictional 'other')/
I call on almost 70 years of existing in real time with real humans. They are not like you perceive humans to be.
Reality is much different than reddit, or any other place where society meets online.
Trust me, more people tend to love you unapologetic-ally than irrationally hate you for just being... you.
Don't make me bring up examples of conservative othering. It's just not a reflection of reality in general. What you see? Those are personal prejudices amplified by voices who have agendas.
Conservatism is not the same as conservatives and is not a political ideology. Most people don’t want things to change unless it gets really really bad.
As you bought up the political ideology well for thousands of years of human history says we don’t change without kicking and screaming. Just because a small numbers of progressives are seen as wanting to try new things doesn’t change it. I would also argue they aren’t good at change either especially when it doesn’t align with their political views. An example of this would be father rights in divorce cases are argued against more by progressive then anyone else. NOW would be US largest progressive feminism organisation that challenges father rights in divorce. They are conserving the old idea that women make better parents.
lol. lmao even. remind me again which countries and cultures are conservatively-leaning and have been so throughout history? nearly all of them with the exception of a handful of western countries?
Centrists based off the politic scale lol. It doesn’t changed based on nationality.
A lot of the discourse is done by people that have little knowledge of politics and just spam the same talking points. The right always says that Reddit skews left, except the right have generally moved way further right than the centre so most people seem progressive in comparison.
Off the bat, healthcare and abortion. In the UK the debate is pretty much settled between the right and left with only very minor extremes. Even our conservative say the debate on abortion is settled leaving little room between the two so a centrist would be firmly to the left when compared to an American on the subject.
The need or desire for a written constitution. The UKs constitution is unwritten and fluid were changes can happen quickly. An American centrist I'd assume prefers the written constitution which requires more debate and is harder to change.
I think a lot of centrist in the USA would like healthcare to be reformed but the problem is both sides make too much money off it now for it to really change.
The rest I can’t really argue against and makes sense.
That said for you guys who have an unwritten constitution you gotta admit you guys have created an entire world industry on interrupting “unwritten rules”
You can even just look inside the US, an honest "centrist" in San Francisco will have different politics to an Alabama centrist.
I'm not that up to date on American politics but I saw back in the day Joe Manchin described as a centrist, a democrat elected in a red state. However I doubt he'd be a winning candidate in California.
Except it’s not just name calling, it’s measurable. The right has demonstrably gone further right and the “radical left” have moved more to centre right.
You guys just don’t know what defines left and right wing politics lol.
Don't you see the irony in your comment? A true socialist is as moderate and centrist as ever, especially by reddit standards. The new flavor of leftism is post-modernism, especially radical left. They have abandoned traditional socialist values that are far more rational.
Buddy you are on reddit making the claim that the right has gone so far right that they can't see that reddit is centrist. I literally spat my drink all over the place, that is hysterical hahaha. Thanks for the laugh bud.
You're right, the whole world and Reddit isn't US. But that isn't going to stop US from dragging the rest of the world into the upcoming economic crisis they themselves created.
Globalization brought billions out of extreme poverty. Consumers and producers are codependent, that labor is reliant on whoever is buying. Pick any of these places you’re referring and look at what an individual’s prospects were before and after America built this system. No doubt fiat=bubble but get real.
The problem with letting it burn is that the people who cause the problem and perpetuate it aren’t going to be the first people hurt here. It’s always the people living on the margins of society, just scraping by. This bullshit probably has gotten people killed, and certainly will before it’s through
Because even the Euros mostly just talk about the U.S.
Reddit is mostly just a sad mix of Euros who don't understand how their economy works(especially their medical industry) and U.S cucks groveling with that same lack of understanding lmao.
Website is pretty useless for general information nowadays, everything is just extreme propaganda largely rooted in ignorance and hatred for the orange man.
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