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Your average Biden voter is either not a leftist or probably voted against Trump. I was with you until that point, because what you're pointing out is that the
by actually_a_dog 5y ago
Your average Biden voter is either not a leftist or probably voted against Trump. I was with you until that point, because what you're pointing out is that the US is intensely conservative on a national scale, especially compared to Europe. Biden would be center right, at best, in Europe.
- rayiner 5y agoBiden would be solidly left on social, cultural, and immigration issues in Europe. E.g. Democrats are freaking out the Supreme Court might uphold Mississippi’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks (with exceptions for health and fetal abnormalities). But that’s a couple of weeks longer than Germany, France, Denmark, etc. Likewise, France and Germany openly reject multiculturalism, which would be a far right position here in the US. France’s center-left Macron sounds like a U.S. Republican when he complains about “woke American culture.” https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/france-threat-american-universities.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/france-threa... Biden is probably median in terms of economic issues. You have to distinguish between what Biden says he wants and where the U.S. is currently. The US is obviously significantly to the right of Europe on economic issues as a starting point. But Biden’s proposal for a 28% tax rate (closer to 35% factoring in state taxes), or his proposals for major hikes in the capital gains rate, are well to the left of where Western Europe is right now.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoThanks for clarifying this, I have often been suspicious of the claim that Democrats in America would be considered center right in Europe, and you list concrete examples of left-leaning political stances in Europe that would be far right in America.