Those are pretty standard policies of center-right / conservative parties in Europe.
(Plus the fact that Dems talk about some of these doesn't mean they think they're going to happen.)
Those are pretty standard policies of center-right / conservative parties in Europe.
(Plus the fact that Dems talk about some of these doesn't mean they think they're going to happen.)
Successive UK conservative prime ministers increased minimum wage 97% from May 2010 to May 2024
Normal earnings increased just 55% in that time and tracking inflation would have meant increasing 49.5%
this isn't europe
True. In the US everyone is to the right.
Seems irrelevant to a discussion comparing US parties.
>Plus the fact that Dems talk about some of these doesn't mean they think they're going to happen
They literally got ACA passed by a hair, and were just shy of 2 Senate votes needed to enact all those policies I discussed in Biden's original BBB.
We're talking about a need for a party that no longer exists in the US. Why would we not look to similar examples out there in actual practice?
this thread comes from a provocative quip that the democrats are conservative, with no mention whatsoever of any context other than america
Here’s some American context: a ~3 minute video. Bush and Reagan, during the primaries, trying to win over Republicans, answering a question about immigration.
https://youtu.be/YsmgPp_nlok
That’s what American conservatism used to look like. Modern Dems talk a lot like that.
Or even look at George @ Bush's calls for comprehensive immigration reform, and his repeated emphasis on treating all immigrants, legal or not, with dignity and courtesy: https://www.bushcenter.org/topics/immigration
Can you name an example?
Sure; the UK's Tories, or Germany's CDU, or Australia's Liberal (lol) Party.
Hell, the right-wing ran on giving more money to the National Health Service as one of their Brexit arguments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote_Leave_bus (Including Farage, at times! https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-r...)
But that ended up being a lie. It almost feels like a pattern...
That's definitely left wing in the United States.
There's a big difference between "actually left wing" and "leftwards of 50% of a particular population".
The US has very little actual big-L Left (ahem) left in it.
left and right are directions, not locations
The leftmost member of the Reichstag in 1942 was probably not fairly described as “left wing”.
Left and right aren’t directions, they are regions