The Future of Democracy

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I think the most serious issue - and the greatest threat to democracy - in American politics is that you don’t have any liberals of consequence. You’ve got Bernie and AOC who are closer to being liberals than any of their compatriots, but even they aren’t quite there. Moderate democrats are centre-right. The progressive wing of the Democratic Party are centre-left. 

In real-world terms, you’ve saddled yourselves with a political right, a right-leaning centre, and an ineffectual left-leaning centre.

This doesn’t really bode well for either effective governance or the preservation of political liberty.

Good luck.

Boru

And this I think ties in with something I mentioned earlier, namely that according to polls, while the majority of Americans are now socially liberal, a significant majority still remains fiscally conservative. If the polls are accurate, then social spending is viewed positively by a minority in the US.

Maybe I’m still tainted by my European upbringing, but ‘socially liberal and fiscally conservative’ sounds like gibberish to me. Or maybe those things mean something different to USians.

Boru