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[–]Q-Continuum-kin 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's an absolutely ridiculous statement. Democrats are liberals. Liberalism is a form of right wing politics. The fact that all sides can't handle basic definitions is a serious problem.

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Not anymore. Democrats aren't real liberals, Republicans before 2020 were a lot more liberal by the authentic definition. But as usual the Democrats played the name game and stole the "liberal" label despite really being socialists.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They are more Liberal than ever. Just because they pander to what some might call "social leftist" activists by giving speeches in front of BLM signs or kneeling in Kente cloth doesn't mean they legislate that way or believe in leftist policies at all. Bernie Sanders is the closest thing you can claim to get to a "socialist" but his policies are more that of a social democrat. You still have at least a level of democratic socialist then socialist. And at that all the mainstream Democrats hate Sanders. They are all right wing Liberals and neocons who play up a performative image of caring about minority communities. That's why they love talking about race or trans issues. It's very easy to visualize melanin concentration or men in dresses by putting a token individual into the oligarchy and saying that solves racism etc. They just would never actually do anything about the underlying problem because then it would require a class based analysis.