• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Sanders is a centrist

    Centre doesn’t mean both sides or in between the right and far right

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      1 year ago

      No.

      He’s left of center. Not anywhere near as far left as neoliberals (who are center right to right wing) and their favourite billionaire owned media outlets pretend or democratic socialist like HE pretends, but still center-left to left wing.

      He’s very close to a classic European style social democrat on most issues.

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        You’re saying he’s left because he’s left of “insert right wing person” but left/right isn’t competitive

        He’s pro-gun, pro-trans, pro-car, anti-globalization

        His union supports are left but health care isn’t left or right it’s bought or not bought

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          That’s a whole lot of words to say that you don’t know what the left-right political spectrum is and how it works.

          He’s not pro-gun. That vote against the Brady bill people keep trying to make the definition of his current gun policy was a mistake. He’s said verbatim that he was wrong back then and would vote differently now.

          Being in favor of trans rights is more on the “liberty/authoritarianism” axis but yeah, that’s very much in the liberty direction.

          As for pro-car, I have no idea what you mean. Judging by his overall theme of everyone cooperating to improve things, I find it EXTREMELY unlikely that he’s not very much in favor of public mass transit playing a much larger role where practically possible.

          As for globalisation, that term means a million things depending on who you ask. It can mean global cooperation to meet shared goals such as climate change amelioration, which he’s clearly in favor of, but it can also mean unlimited power for transnational corporations, which he’s very much against.

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          He is pro single payer healthcare, meaning he is pro tax to pay for universal healthcare. Check your facts, homie, because we don’t want to. It’s exhausting.