Comment on Is everyone here leftist?
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 5 months agoOverrepresented may not be correct, the majority of the world is far to the left of the US. Even the US population is like 60-70% left leaning, it’s just that the left has lower voter participation rates.
Even the US population is like 60-70% left leaning, it’s just that the left has lower voter participation rates.
Left leaning vs leftist is a much higher bar and I’d wager under 20% of the US (voting) population is leftist. That’s just based on my memory of how few leftist representatives we have in congress… Far from an exact science.
Left leaning Americans are still on the right compared to most countries.
vga@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
This used to be true, but I don’t think it is anymore. Or at least my perception is that some parts of the american left are way leftier than the europeans left are.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
There are no communist regimes…
Both Russia and China are authoritarian dictatorships operating on a semblance of oligarchy controlled capitalism at this point.
vga@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Not at the moment perhaps, but they definitely were in the past.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
What’s changed is people’s outspokenness about their political views.
The American Left, on average, would be considered well in the middle of the right in most of the world. This has resulted in “far left” in the US encompassing everything from global centrism to far left extremism. As such, using the term is pretty pointless without adding enough context so others know what is included.