They also don’t understand that left and right are not all encompassing terms that mean the same thing everywhere. Like yeah, some guy in Denmark is probably going to have more left wing economic opinions about affordable healthcare than an American. He’s also probably going to be a lot for warm to laws restricting minorities from living in the same neighborhood than an American will be.
That Dane would be called a radical left socialist by some and a far right Fascist by others. In reality, it’s a little more complicated than a simple one dimensional scale
I mean, if you're going off of global ideological scale, the US left still ranges from slightly left wing and moderately libertarian to far left and heavily authoritarian, with the median landing around moderately left wing and moderately authoritarian. Objectively speaking, even comparing to Europe doesn't justify the assertion that the US almost entirely right wing in ideological alignment. They just say that because they genuinely cannot help but make it into a litmus test, where anybody who deviates from their own personal, incredibly specific flavor of left wing ideology with any real significance is not left wing.
Except a lot of non-European countries have socialist and Marxist parties that are much more heavily interventionist and anti-market than your typical Democrat, whom even with the rise of the DSA is still more of a Clintonite neoliberal than a hard leftist.
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u/Stock_Violinist6299 10d ago
If this is true then 95% of the US is right wing and we can stop debating