Democrats are all upset over Mamdani because he’s a Democratic Socialist? Why? I don’t get it. What’s wrong with being a Democratic Socialist. It seems like a good thing to me. I thought Democrats embraced socialism.

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[–] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Swede here, if we compare the two political parties in the US to the Swedish political spectrum, the Republicans would be far to the right of even Sverigedemokraterna, the Democrats would be center-right.

What the US calls the left side of the political compass is nowhere near the actual left on a proper political compass.

The US badly needs a new voting system, the current one promotes stagnation and I can't see it ever having more than two realistic choices again.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Compared to Germany, the republicans are far right like our AfD... Your ICE is the dream of the AfD.

    And the democrats are more "economy-liberal" instead of actually liberal. Also, they contain much of the CDU (conservative) energy, a bit of green party energy and a bit of SPD (social democrats) energy....

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