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In reply to the discussion: "If the Democratic Party would fight as hard for the Working Class ..." [View all]eniwetok
(1,629 posts)Not when they have a history of pushing free trade and have contributed to the destruction of unions.
But then even Progressive Dems tend to be too far to the right for me when it comes to finally confronting and reforming our antidemocratic federal system... and reestablishing control over corporations.
My point is from a US perspective... a Bernie Sanders may seem a left wing progressive. But from a European social democratic perspective even a Bernie has right wing tendencies. We just don't call them right wing since the Dems also share the same ideas... that we dare not ever reform our federal system... even if its antidemocratic nature is responsible for much of what Bernie complains about... and we can't launch a counterattack on the corporate form even if it's a creation of government.