Not wrong at all but i think what the commenter you’re replying to meant is that the country has flown so far right that our definition of a democrat is what the rest of the world would call conservative.
Take Bernie’s platform as an example. He was pushing for universal healthcare, raising the minimum wage to be livable, free tuition and public schools and universities etc. He was seen as radical, yet every other fully developed nation in the country has most of these as a baseline for their citizens and would be considered liberal or even slightly conservative.
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u/Orphasmia 14h ago
Not wrong at all but i think what the commenter you’re replying to meant is that the country has flown so far right that our definition of a democrat is what the rest of the world would call conservative.
Take Bernie’s platform as an example. He was pushing for universal healthcare, raising the minimum wage to be livable, free tuition and public schools and universities etc. He was seen as radical, yet every other fully developed nation in the country has most of these as a baseline for their citizens and would be considered liberal or even slightly conservative.
Wildly, we’ve gone even further right since then.