• stinky@redlemmy.com
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    1 day ago

    There are plenty of mainstream, public leftists. Some of them run for official positions. Many of them express their opinions online with full name and credentials.

    You’re trying to give the leftists an excuse for not succeeding, but it’s their fault, not their government’s.

    • Nemo's public admirer@lemmy.sdf.org
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      16 hours ago

      Who are they? I have heard of centre-left folk like Bernie Sanders and AOC. Any Marxist leader?

      I think they seem as leftists only in the context of America

      I’m from India, we have a Fabian socialist influence(but we have a RW party in power here for over a decade now) and from the net your available main party options seem to be centre-left to Right.

      And you have no real economical left too, right? Bernie Sanders who was bit left of centre-left was restricted by his party, right?

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        6 hours ago

        You’re right, our political spectrum has been “stretched” so far to the right that even our left feels centrist to other developed nations.

        It makes a lot of American leftists angry. To them it’s unconscionable that so many people (including leadership) agrees with right-wing agenda.

        Angry leftists here often say hurtful things and it upsets me, I should probably apologize to the guy above

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      Liberals are not leftists, the US government has a long and extremely well documented history of sabotaging and directly attacking actual leftists domestically and internationally, every idea you have is verifiably wrong