• Saleh@feddit.org
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    10 hours ago

    Yeah, years of pandering to fascists by elevating their topics, repeating their lies unchallenged and also blaming everything on “the foreigners” shifts politics to the right and far right. Doesn’t mean that it shifts what is left and what is right.

    You can have countries full of fascists. Doesn’t mean the “moderate fascists” now get to define what is “left”.

    This “logic” of course is peddled by the US Democrats and amplified by the Oligarchy. Also the US Democrats dont want to tax the rich. Over the past Decades they have shifted the taxes from capital to income. There never was a proper healthcare system in the US and Obama defended not creating a proper one when he had the power because “muuh Jobs”.

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      10 hours ago

      I think that left being progressive and right being conservative means that the absolute scale does change based on the current situation.