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Another take on this is that rightwing has an outsized influence on society, and so-called left leaning is actually how most people orient themselves.
by Lutger 4y ago
Another take on this is that rightwing has an outsized influence on society, and so-called left leaning is actually how most people orient themselves.
- bluetomcat 4y agoIt's the right-wing capitalists that promote left-wing narratives for the masses. It's called woke capitalism for a reason.
- throwaway4aday 4y agoThat should show up pretty clearly at the ballot box and yet the US remains divided and most other countries go back and forth between left and right leaning parties every election or two.
- krapp 4y agoThe US electoral system is designed to favor rural, thus primarily conservative and Christian, votes over urban as a vestigial remnant of compromises to keep slave-owning states in the union, gerrymandering, etc. The majority of Americans live in cities and have political views which would be considered "leftist" in US parlance - they support Roe V. Wade, gun control, health care reform, etc. That, in practice, the US appears "divided" at all is only due to the outsized influence of the right and rural voters.
- meany 4y agoIt's not so much a bias of rural over urban, but lower population states versus larger states. You could be urban and just be smaller in size. This part of the "great compromise" was actually for smaller, non-slave states like Delaware. Virgina, the largest state in the nation at the time and a slave state, proposed the Virgina Plan, which proposed the creation of a bicameral national legislature, or a legislature consisting of two houses, in which the “rights of suffrage” in both houses would be proportional to the size of the state. Small states objected, because they'd had equal representation under the articles of confederation. https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/senate-and-constitution/equal-state-representation.htm https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/senate-and-... The overall final compromise did include compromises to slave owning states, but this vestigial is not due to those compromises. In fact, they were against it.
- cyberge99 4y agoThe US Republican party hasn’t won the popular Presidential vote in the last 8 elections or so.
- yucky 4y agoThere is no such thing as a popular presidential vote though. Using a baseball analogy, scoring more runs in a series doesn't matter, winning more games does. So you build your strategy with the idea in mind that if you're going to lose California anyway, lose it big and use those resources elsewhere. Also of note (and just as relevant), Republicans won the Popular vote for Congress by over 3 million.[1] [1] https://www.cookpolitical.com/charts/house-charts/national-house-vote-tracker/2022 https://www.cookpolitical.com/charts/house-charts/national-h...