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fubo@lemmy.world 11 months agoboth the Democratic and Republican parties are right of center liberalism
We currently have a center-right party (the Democrats) who have tempered their “free trade, rising tide lifts all boats” liberalism with some “made in America” economic nationalism lately; … and a far-right party (the Republicans) who are likely to nominate an outright fascist for their next presidential candidate — either a failed dictator, or a human trafficker — both of whom have promised to continue to abuse power to get revenge on their political enemies.
passably9@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You are wrong. Democratic party is a far left party. And Republican party is a center right party
fubo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Far left” generally refers to revolutionary communists and others who would oppose capitalism, nationalize industries, etc. — not to a party that seems to define its success in terms of the stock market going up and workers having high employment in private industry. The values and platform of the Democratic Party are solidly in support of globalized capitalism as a system, much more so today than in (e.g.) the FDR administration.
I would agree that the Republicans have previously been center-right, e.g. in the Reagan and Bush era. However, their embrace of antidemocratic principles, ideological alignment with the international far-right (including Putin’s Russia), abuse of business regulation to punish political dissent (see DeSantis vs. Disney), targeting of religious and sexual minorities (Muslims, LGBTQ+), and embrace of political violence (see alignment with militia and street-fighting groups; also January 6), have all shown a strong migration towards the far-right.