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Brits, what do you think of Corbyn?
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RE: Brits, what do you think of Corbyn?
I'm not a Brit. However I noticed the vanishing left-wing in the US as the Democrats move to the Center-Right and the Republicans move even more Right wing each year.

The appearance of New Labor and the reinvention of the US Democratic Party in part were reactions to the Reagan and Thatcher eras.

The world of Thatcher and Reagan is long dead.

So now you have two versions of the "lefter than the Republicans/Tories" that moved rightward to attract votes back from their conservative counterparts. But you no longer have the world with the threat of the Soviet Union or the rising tide of communism. Instead countries like China have moved towards embracing the capitalist economy while using it to fund authoritarian rule.

This leaves Labor and the Democrats with a problem -- if the world that they moved to the right for no longer exists, where should they go now?

Jeremey Corbyn and Bernie Sanders, I feel, represent a potential pull towards the direction of the Left, which may restore balance to our currently bitterly divided politics.

It is my belief that the choice between "Conservative" and "Conservative-Lite" (as exemplified by the Blair era and the adoption of many conservative ideas like RomneyCare by President Obama) has bored people and stagnated both political factions.

How can politicians compromise like they did forty years ago when there is no threat of strong opposition, only a weaker and watered down opposition?

Perhaps with the re-emergence of the Left we will see the Tea Parties of politics be suppressed in favor of a better functioning democracy.

With that, I hope Corbyn succeeds. If he wins or makes it a tough race for the Tories, I feel both Labor and Tories will be better off and more involved.

If anything, someone as milquetoast as exemplified by Ed Milliband or Obama would then be seen as the centrist he is as opposed to the distorted image he has between parties. That would be healthy.

(Yes, I have included comparisons between the US and UK intentionally)
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Brits, what do you think of Corbyn? - by abaris - September 12, 2015 at 9:26 am
RE: Brits, what do you think of Corbyn? - by Autumnlicious - September 12, 2015 at 8:17 pm
RE: Brits, what do you think of Corbyn? - by Ashground - September 13, 2015 at 1:40 am
RE: Brits, what do you think of Corbyn? - by I_am_not_mafia - September 13, 2015 at 4:35 am
RE: Brits, what do you think of Corbyn? - by Fidel_Castronaut - September 13, 2015 at 7:29 am
RE: Brits, what do you think of Corbyn? - by Napoléon - September 13, 2015 at 4:32 pm
RE: Brits, what do you think of Corbyn? - by I_am_not_mafia - September 13, 2015 at 4:53 pm
RE: Brits, what do you think of Corbyn? - by Napoléon - September 13, 2015 at 4:55 pm
RE: Brits, what do you think of Corbyn? - by Fidel_Castronaut - September 13, 2015 at 5:21 pm
RE: Brits, what do you think of Corbyn? - by Fidel_Castronaut - September 14, 2015 at 5:49 am
RE: Brits, what do you think of Corbyn? - by I_am_not_mafia - September 14, 2015 at 6:21 am
RE: Brits, what do you think of Corbyn? - by I_am_not_mafia - September 14, 2015 at 7:00 am
RE: Brits, what do you think of Corbyn? - by Fidel_Castronaut - September 14, 2015 at 7:18 am
RE: Brits, what do you think of Corbyn? - by Fidel_Castronaut - September 17, 2015 at 6:35 am
RE: Brits, what do you think of Corbyn? - by Iroscato - September 17, 2015 at 6:41 am
RE: Brits, what do you think of Corbyn? - by robvalue - September 17, 2015 at 6:46 am
RE: Brits, what do you think of Corbyn? - by Fidel_Castronaut - September 17, 2015 at 8:23 am
RE: Brits, what do you think of Corbyn? - by Ben Davis - September 17, 2015 at 8:29 am
RE: Brits, what do you think of Corbyn? - by robvalue - September 17, 2015 at 8:32 am
RE: Brits, what do you think of Corbyn? - by Fidel_Castronaut - September 17, 2015 at 8:35 am
RE: Brits, what do you think of Corbyn? - by Iroscato - September 17, 2015 at 9:09 am
RE: Brits, what do you think of Corbyn? - by robvalue - September 17, 2015 at 9:25 am

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