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Aah come on. Nobody said the Democrats are "adjacent" to stoning women. Sheesh. From the perspective of a country that is to the left of the Democrats, yes, th
by austinjp 4y ago
Aah come on. Nobody said the Democrats are "adjacent" to stoning women. Sheesh.
From the perspective of a country that is to the left of the Democrats, yes, they appear centre-right.
I'm not sure you've can offer a truly global perspective from which to accurately determine whether the US Gov is left or right leaning, but if I had to predict such an answer I'd say it would tip right.
Edit: okay, did some hunting and found this: https://archive.ph/PjNEF https://archive.ph/PjNEF
Check the bubble chart. The Dems are in fact globally left-leaning, according to the Manifesto Project described in the article. But check the relative positions from e.g. a British perspective (since that happens to be shown in the chart). The Dems are to the right of the UK's left-wing Labour Party, while the Republicans are right of the right-wing Conservatives. The overall British perspective of the US would be of a right-leaning country.
I've not looked at other perspectives since I'm in mobile and I've not going to deep-dive the Manifesto Project just now. But I wonder which are the nations which have an "overall" perspective of the US as left-leaning?