• Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz
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    10 hours ago

    The fact that 44% of voters are glad to elect another Republican regardless of the Democratic opposition after how much of Project 2025 has been enacted already demonstrates that even in 50 years the U.S. probably won’t be as liberal as the EU is now.

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      2 hours ago

      It’s when happens when both sides promote a culture war over a class war.

      Establishment democrats don’t care about the working class, but they won’t shut up about coming for our guns.

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        117 people are killed on average by firearms in the U.S. every day; preventing as many of those deaths as possible is a worthwhile goal.

        Just as the electoral college is trapping the U.S. in a two-party system, the second amendment has resulted in countless preventable deaths that don’t occur in other first world countries.

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      5 hours ago

      I don’t know if you can say the EU is liberal. The liberal EPP only holds 182 out of 720 seats in the European Parliament, for example. It seems in the US the term liberal is often used to indicate leftwing as well, but on (most of) the European political spectrum liberals are solidly rightwing and often fairly conservative on top of that.

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        ‘Liberal’ in general U.S. political usage is a catch-all term for the left; when being more specific, one can also distinguish ‘Progressive’ as being those further to the left.

        My point was that many of the goals of democratic socialism in the U.S. are policies that are already widespread in the EU.

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      It’s also worth nothing that the number of people willing to identify as Republican has been dropping precipitously. I’d like to see the same poll, but with Independents added in the mix.