(December 26, 2016 at 10:02 am)Tiberius Wrote:(December 26, 2016 at 8:06 am)Tazzycorn Wrote: Yes the far right republicans and the hard right democrats.
Yes there may be a few genuine trots in the US, but they've less political clout than a dead gnat.
Not sure if you are joking or you made a typo but the "hard right" Democrats aren't the extremists, the leftist ones are.
Currently this is the kind of stuff characterised as far left (including by a lot on here trying to establish a false equivalency of extremes in US and UK politics, mainly because they don't want to see how fucked up their ruling systems are*):
Universal heathcare
Non-profit state public transport
Half way effective financial regulation
Employees union rights
Regulations designed to protect the environment
Forty years ago these things were largely non controversial outside the political far right and hard right, because most politicians lived through the consequences of not doing them and were not so easily bought.
*Not saying other parliamentary systems are less fucked up, but most people in, say, Ireland recognise that the parties in their country are very much pn ther right.
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