The Partisan Divide on Issues

[David Horn]

(06-15-2020, 05:03 PM)taramarie Wrote:

(06-15-2020, 04:44 PM)David Horn Wrote: Here in the USA, anything left of center is considered socialist, at least by the Trumpist crowd.  Actually, by some mainstream conservatives too.

As said it is CENTRE left. So not completely left of centre. Any person regardless of political affiliation who would lump them as one group (socialist) is an idiot. There are always variations.

We Americans paint with primary colors and broad brushes. Subtlety is not part of our brand. So yes, we get things wrong by going either too far or not far enough. That said, most of us head in roughly the right direction. There are exceptions, of course, and the exceptions have mostly aligned on what is nominally our fringes, and we have more than two of those. For example, the Trumpists and the Religious Right are allies (of sorts) but are quite different. The SJWs are not all alike either, with BLM and Antifa being occasional allies and occasional adversaries. We're a mess.