• contemporary democrats are not any better, they make hella frequent concessions to anti-competitive business practices under the guise of licensing or stimulus

      • Cybersteel
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        21 year ago

        What makes the rest of the world any better than US by using them as a metric.

        • @thoro@lemmy.ml
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          51 year ago

          The fact their Overton windows aren’t so skewed that a center right party is considered “the left”?

        • @_wintermute@lemmy.world
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          21 year ago

          US politics is a few hundred years old whereas European and other’s are thousands of years old? The rest of the world’s political perspective has a bit more precedent than ours.

    • Pelicanen
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      61 year ago

      Far from perfect? Yes. Bad? Very often. Not any better than Republicans when it comes to corporate interests? Absolutely not.