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I think its okay to own your place on the political compass. Some reason the far left and far right always imagine they are the center and thats how we get extremism and unpopular policies! Look around you, 330M americans. Lots of opinions. Where do your opinions land if we lined them all up between left and right. Nothing wrong with being a lefty. All opinions matter, not all should be forced on people.
Look around you, 330M americans.
I'm not American so my Overton window is what it should be, unlike the unhealthy US landscape.
And even on mine I am pretty far left.Nothing wrong with being a lefty
Certainly not, but you should at least know to rate them accurately.
Larping as left like AOC or Bernie doesn't cut it.Well that’s what I was trying to discuss with you, I do think I can rate them accurately. We may not agree on how I rate people because I am writing them in context of the voters around me.
The leftist in my local city are much different than the leftist in our national government. So yes the based local leftist who run food drives and do social workers are ‘real leftists’( leftist purity test or a leftist thing) the guys that talk Marx theory and run for local office. I know all types.
But in the American national government, there are few of those types. Because they do not represent a majority of Americans. They are the far left in this country. Nothing wrong with that. It’s just where the median is today in my interpretation.
We may not agree on how I rate people because I am writing them in context of the voters around me.
Well you are right.
A typical American thing, many of them have a faulty benchmark for rating since they only think about their own country.
This while the rest of the world mostly uses these terms accurately since they don't have this narrow spectrum and they are well defined and universal.
Especially online that can lead to confusion.Well usually when we're talking about 'democrats' we're talking about an American political party. And if we're talking about American politics, i assume we are talking aout American politics, and assume their values. Not the French, or the Japanese. I like to learn about other peoples politics too, but thats not what we are discussing here.
Even when talking about Americans, the definitions don't change.
Even if you do it among yourselves, using 'left' for what is only objectively 'relatively left' people will not even know what actual left is.
That's getting Orwellian.
Hypothetically, if you're from a extremely violent country except for the small area where you happen to live and you only see 4 people being shot in your street every day, would you think it's accurate to call that a peaceful area?