• Weirdfish@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The issue is that the US has two right wings parties, with one being quite a bit further right.

    There is no extreme left party in the US.

    There are plenty of people who talk about extreme left ideas, but none of them are elected politicians.

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      11 months ago

      The bigger issue is that all countries are fairly right wing. They’re all capitalistic and nationalistic, putting them on a crash course for war and suffering. Exploitative systems just can’t work like they used to. It’s too easy for disadvantaged people to cause apocalyptic damage to those that exploit them.

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      11 months ago

      But there are extremist leftists, and disagreeing with them doesn’t make you a rightist nor a fascist as they so often claim - just like disagreeing with right-wing extremism and trumpism doesn’t make you a tankie/commie/whatever extremist).

      Plenty of left-leaners disagree with the far left and plenty of right-leaners disagree with the far right.