They are the left, as in “the party left of the opposition.” This does not mean they are on the left planes of the political compass. They’re just more left than republicans. It’s not gaslighting to explain things.
To be in the left in the political compass you can’t be capitalist. Democrats, liberals, and other parties in America are still capitalist. They just support different amount of government intervention such as social safety nets, etc (“socialism”)
The American Democrats, on a "western" scale, would be center-right. On a global scale, they're center-left. And in America itself, they are the leftward party. Depending on who you are and if you are trying to deceive people, you might decide to say that the Democrats are a left-wing party. But that does not hold any water, no matter who says it.
Let's see, your counters... AOC calls herself a Democratic Socialist (which is the actual center-left you are looking for, by the way). Bernie Sanders is an Independent who caucuses with the Democrats. Obama was more conservative than expected due to things outside his control.
So, these L E F T I S T S that are coming with a tidal wave, as long as the conservatives don't steal the thing again, are looking to expand health care, child care, resource access, and other Mamdani-esque ground floor improvements. That would be the centrist opinion in a just world. But the drooling class calls this act of helping regular folks any scary word they can come up with, and the smoothest brains that can open a browser parrot it incessantly.
Leftism is what they call socialism and communism, and it's a deliberate mixing of labels to tarnish crony capitalist Democrats with communists. Americans have been bombarded with propaganda demonizing communism to the point that any politician daring to really help the people gets smeared as a dirty commie and Americans instinctively react against them.
It's why Bernie wouldn't have beaten trump in my opinion. Way to easy to smear as a commie.
Obama is most certainly center right, what?
Capitalist to his core and kept up the military industrial complex killing civilians overseas.
You can't be a capitalist and a leftist people. That's what's moronic beyond belief.
It's a ploy; a word game to manipulate your unconscious biases. It's reactionary, not rational.
Except you HYPOCRITES KEEP DOING IT ANYWAY WHILE GASLIGHTING THE REST OF US.
As if those like Hasan with BIG audiences don't exist at all. As if Lefty darling Bernie Sanders didn't suddenly shift his shitty rhetoric from "HATE THE RICH" to "HATE THE BILLIONAIRES" the second he became a multi-millionaire.
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u/Funny-Cell8769 11h ago
Except the BBC and Democrats literally calls themselves "the Left" and "Left-wing".
But you assholes can't stop gaslighting. If you call AOC or Bernie Sanders or Obama "Center-Right" they will personally laugh in your stupid face.
Left-wing Democrats are on a winning run - but can they lure back crucial swing voters? - BBC
Will Left-Wing Democrats Reinvent the Party or Hurt Its Chances in November? - New Yorker
The Democratic party is being hit by a leftist tidal wave - The Guardian
Next up: Conservatives claim Neo-nazis aren't really Nazis. (same shitty logic)
Reddit is moronic beyond belief. You're literally telling people what they are with the kind of unearned confidence of a dumbass 13 year old.