• samus12345@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Being center of left and right means being about where the Democractic Party in the US is. Anyone who considers themself a “centrist” between Democrats and Republicans is right-wing because the GOP is so far, far right and the Dems are so center-left.

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      11 months ago

      Dems are so center-left.

      Your dems are more right than Union of Right Forces and Republican Party of Russia back when they existed.

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      11 months ago

      I can probably come up with issues Democrats are further to the left than most other countries on. Abortion, for example.

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        11 months ago

        Abortion isn’t a left/right issue, but a socially progressive/conservative issue. Left/right are being used in this context to refer to economic composition.

        As leftism is historically the revolutionary position, and rightism the conservative, you can technically call abortion protections left, but in this specific context economics are at play.

        That’s where the whole idea of “socially progressive, fiscally conservative” positioning comes from.