• amio
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    21 hours ago

    Well no. No, not quite like in America, thankfully.

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      19 hours ago

      I mean you basically described the major positions of the Democrats (fake left, center right) and Republicans (racist and anti-environment)

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        18 hours ago

        Sort of, yes, but we have additional parties and a different way of doing things. While we do classically have two dominant parties sniping at each other, it’s genuinely more diverse, arguably a better representative of “the people’s will”. Unfortunately the people’s will is stupid high on right wing populism right now, so it’s not really a great example of the benefits. If nothing else it’s blissfully boring over here. (cough mostly cough)

        I suppose you could stretch the US metaphor and say the Conservatives and " Progress " Party (said polybigots) are roughly like different wings/eras of the GOP or something. PP (hhehe) actively imitating/flirting with Trump style bs and more traditional GOP garbage before that, Conservatives being somewhat better at masking and profiling themselves as “responsible”, which haha, shocker, means giving the rich all they want.