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That probably depends where in Europe. Obama supporting gay marriage, accepting thousands of asylum seekers from the Middle East, and trying to legalize million
by blfr 10y ago
That probably depends where in Europe. Obama supporting gay marriage, accepting thousands of asylum seekers from the Middle East, and trying to legalize millions of illegal immigrants against the legislature, or the whole HUD programme would certainly be a far-far-left politician in Poland. You will rarely hear a politician like that on TV and their parties usually don't gather 5% of the vote required to have a representation in the parliament. Not to mention winning national elections.
He does some things which are in the interest of large corporations or sponsors but that's less about political views and really more of an acceptable form of corruption. Corrupt politicians are of course in stores everywhere pretending to believe any ideology they need to.
And it's not just Poland. I'm sceptical of this political conversion to metric in general.
- andybak 10y agoUnderstood but none of things equate to being a socialist beyond the fact that certain bundles of policies tend to get lumped into broad 'left' and 'right' buckets at any given point in time (being in favour of more immigration isn't intrinsically left or right - I'd actually argue that it probably has a more natural home among 'right-wing' laissez-faire economic policies). My point is that Obama would be regarded as far from being a Socialist outside of the US - with it's own peculiar calibration of the political spectrum.