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Biden is a centrist at best. Far left my ass. Our view of the political spectrum is so warped.
74% describe Obama, someone that literally wrote a pro-deregulation op-ed in The Wall Street Journal while in office, as left wing.
This is what people are talking about when they say there's no left-wing representation in America.
To a conservative, anything left of them is far left.
He would be considered a solid right in Canada.
I considered him to be solid right when he started his career. His politics is definitely not far right, and it's leaned more left over time. But I would consider him right, except the far right have gone so off the deep end. We also don't have like... An anarchist party or any real far left politicians in America.
That's most of the reason I said "at best". He's much farther right than the right seem to think he is. Everything is messed up here.
"Our"....
You should know that there is a constant in American political geography that 30-35% are crazy people who watch Fox News (or similar) as their only news source.
Describes a terrifying situation thst could be ripped straight from the pages of a Stephen King novel .
Its truly baffling the level of crazy bullshit is just normal now.
I think it is important to remember that this is not "normal now". These sorts of beliefs were accepted as pretty normal for decades, and for many people in the time before that, were the standard and only beliefs that existed.
It's the same people who were the Bush dead enders in 2008, as his approval ratings tanked
When you look at the numbers, you can gather that most far left propositions probably come from maga supporters.
You can derive from that that only 4% of non maga consider Sanders as far left.
Maybe the graph should be corrected and fascists' views disregarded.
Fascists should not and cannot be included in any reasonable political system.
It's because they don't have an understanding of what Marxism or what communism and anarchism actually are.
Data is beautiful and this chart is probably very accurate, but America's understanding of and perception of the political spectrum has moved so far to the right that we can't even ~~fine~~ find the witness marks of where everything should be.
Label everything communism or socialism and pretend we know what we're talking about.