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In reply to the discussion: Sorry To Say, But America Does Not Want To Be Left Of Center [View all]LearnedHand
(5,222 posts)36. Please don't echo right wing framing of what "left of center" means
Because what you recited is completely a Republican framework, not the truth. I'm FAR left of center and what you wrote is nothing close to the social policies I and my far-left compatriots espouse. Think FDR populism that works for the good of all Americans, basic healthcare for all, and strong laws that reign in corporations and gazillionaires. Please lose the hateful "defund the police" and the rest of the republican-framed extremist language about the left. And you also are mistaken and how many of the party are
center, especially with young people. Finally, take a look at what you yourself mean by the center, because the Republicans have shoved the Overton Window so far rightward that the KKK now anchors the center. Just saying.
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That Biden would have done much worse than Harris, is a bit inconvenient to this argument.
tritsofme
Nov 2024
#16
I personally don't think people realized what they were voting for and will come to regret it.
ratchiweenie
Nov 2024
#10
It could be that they say "yes" because it's more PC, but when push comes to shove, they don't care about them
DSandra
Nov 2024
#28
Since when is supporting abortion rights. equal treatments of all, decent jobs and pay is "left of center?"
question everything
Nov 2024
#29
Those darn liberals....conservatives define "liberal" as anyone who is not their idea of conservative.
walkingman
Nov 2024
#34
I think people want to be left of center. They don't want to be Democrats. They vote for left-of-center policy, when
In It to Win It
Nov 2024
#35
Umm, who exactly is there who is left of center in U.S. elections?
DJ Synikus Makisimus
Nov 2024
#37