I hear a lot that people say the US Democratic Party would be right wing in Europe. But I see a lot of Europeans online say that their (left) parties are corrupt and right wing. What am I missing?

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    14 days ago

    Basically extreme right in Europe is about at the same level as extreme left in the USA. That about explains how bad your country is right now

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      14 days ago

      Absolutely not? Like, we have real og facists™️ (not gatekeeping ‘it’s not fascisim if it doesn’t come from the Fascia region in Italy, it’s just sparkling authoritarianism’, just saying that there’s a continuity and fascist traditional over here) and they have an important presence in our politics since forever.

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        8 days ago

        You’re claiming that current European right wing is worse than. US right wing because the European right wing is based in the fascia region?

        That’s a whole new take right there…

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          7 days ago

          No. I’m not claiming such a thing, read the comment again, please. I wasn’t even one-upping the Americans just equating the situation–they have fascists, we have fascists, Oprah’s voice ‘everybody gets fascists!’…