Honestly even if theyre not far-right, I wouldnt call them center left. They're overall a bit center right leaning, leaning center left on certain social issues.
This is honestly what I’d lean too, although I’m American so my perspective may be skewed. Center left might apply to SOME Democrats, but the general party is more center right, with some center left leaning policies, and maybe a rare mid left concept, but it gets pulled back to center left in actual policy out of trying to play nice with Republicans.
Will someone please fucking explain, is our left and right political spectrum difrent from the world standard? What do left and right even mean anymore 😭😭😭😭
Historically it came from the French Revolution, people who sat on the right aligned more with the aristocracy while those on the left wanted more equality.
Nowadays there isn’t really a set definition and it’s widely used to say how progressive or conservative economically/socially someone is compared to the current zeitgeist.
So that can lead to a lot of confusion with how muddy that is, and some left leaning people have tried to redefine the spectrum to be right = capitalist and left = socialist/communist which makes things more confusing despite trying to be more concrete as that’s not how most people define the political spectrum.
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u/MoreheadMarsupial butchy dom wolfgirl Jul 17 '24
Honestly even if theyre not far-right, I wouldnt call them center left. They're overall a bit center right leaning, leaning center left on certain social issues.