• chilicheeselies@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Thats on borrowed time. Money to isreal is one of the only issues left and right agree with. Someone is going to take advantage of that eventually and isrela is gonna get disconnected from the US teet

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      9 hours ago

      I know you are probably American, so am I.

      We need to stop calling the Democrats the “left” party. They’re not.

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        30 minutes ago

        Isn’t it relative though? They’re left of the Republicans so they are the left most choice Americans have.

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          No because left means anti-capitalist. The Democratic Party is not anti-capitalist. Therefore, the Democratic Party is not a left party.

          However, they are a neoliberal party. Which, when compared to the Republican Party’s existence as a fascist party, does certainly make the Democrats preferable. But just because they are preferable does not mean they are left