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>you're not going to get banned for posting support for universal healthcare, ending the drug war, ending for-profit prisons, etc even though these are extreme
by perl4ever 5y ago
>you're not going to get banned for posting support for universal healthcare, ending the drug war, ending for-profit prisons, etc even though these are extreme left positions in current US politics
Close to 2/3rds of the American public supports universal healthcare and ending the drug war. Therefore they can't by definition be extreme left positions.
"63% of U.S. adults say the government has the responsibility to provide health care coverage for all"
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/29/increasing-share-of-americans-favor-a-single-government-program-to-provide-health-care-coverage/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/29/increasing-...
'65% of voters support ending the “War on Drugs.”'
https://drugpolicy.org/press-release/2021/06/50th-anniversary-war-drugs-new-poll-shows-majority-voters-support-ending https://drugpolicy.org/press-release/2021/06/50th-anniversar...
- p1necone 5y agoIt's not that they are extreme left positions, it's that that other 35% thinks that universal healthcare, or abortion, or whatever === Stalinism and will paint moderate views as if they are extremism when disingenuously asking "why isn't the extreme left content taken down".