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Leftism and Clinton in the same post is very amusing, America is weird. I can't really think of anything about her that aligns with leftists politics.
by gyaru 9y ago
Leftism and Clinton in the same post is very amusing, America is weird.
I can't really think of anything about her that aligns with leftists politics.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoIf you're far enough to the right, everyone starts to look like a leftist.
- ionised 9y agoThat is the kicker isn't it. It's the Overton Window in action; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
- makomk 9y agoThe reason people see Clinton as left-wing is because her campaign and the American media used this as a cynical marketing tactic to try and convince people to vote for her. Anyone who pointed out the fact that she did not, in fact, align with leftist politics was accused of practising "purity politics" and of hating her because she was a woman. The New York Times ran an opinion piece telling her critics to "grow up". There was a general feeling amongst the media that there could be no good-faith criticism or dislike for her from a left-wing perspective. A lot of this spread onto social media too, not helped by the astroturf campaigns by groups like ShareBlue/Correct The Record.
- ionised 9y agoSeriously. In the US they have two parties. Right and Far Right. The media reflects that as well.
- knowaveragejoe 9y agoI'm really saddened to see the sort of rhetoric used by the parent on HN. "Fake News" is a nebulous term, but the real thing people are getting as is these sites that churn out this obviously fake content and/or generate it with scripts that gets shared literally tens of millions of times on facebook.