• chungusam0ngus@iusearchlinux.fyi
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    1 year ago

    contemporary democrats are not any better, they make hella frequent concessions to anti-competitive business practices under the guise of licensing or stimulus

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      1 year ago

      This is why US democrats are considered center-right compared to the rest of the world.

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          The fact their Overton windows aren’t so skewed that a center right party is considered “the left”?

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          US politics is a few hundred years old whereas European and other’s are thousands of years old? The rest of the world’s political perspective has a bit more precedent than ours.

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      And then the moment a union starts getting buck, out come the democrats with the freshly-oiled whips…

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      Far from perfect? Yes. Bad? Very often. Not any better than Republicans when it comes to corporate interests? Absolutely not.