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Red Velvet
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« on: March 13, 2021, 01:53:38 AM »

Center-right.
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Red Velvet
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« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2021, 04:47:28 PM »

Yes and no. Even if we don't include foreign policy, the dominant wing of the party is still center-right, that favor big corporations, which includes, although it's a small faction in the party, of Blue Dog Democrats, social liberals and fiscal conservatives, predominant (although recently slightly less) in the South, while we have a liberal majority wing from center to center left and a populist and social democratic left wing led by Sanders with influences from dwarf political parties like the Democratic Socialists of America and the Social Democratic Party USA.

Pretty much. They’re basically a PSDB, while republicans would be a mix of PSL + NOVO.

Difference is that PSDB trend is moving right in the last 3 decades, while US democrats are moving left, even if slowly. In the 90s, PSDB would be the leftier one, nowadays it’s probably 90s Democrats.

The PSDB Brazilian voters in the US voted against Trump, but for Bolsonaro. Which puts them closer to the right than to the left.
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Red Velvet
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« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2021, 10:49:20 AM »

Yes.

Following are examples:

• Bill Clinton: NAFTA and the Telecommunications Act

• Barack Obama: Affordable Care Act and taking the nation from two to seven wars

• Joe Biden: Cheerleader for the war in Iraq who also attacked party members in Congress who opposed that war; generally, Biden is a war monger

All three are also owned by Wall Street.

None of them are politically on the left.

So, there is no way to honestly answer this question without noting these examples and having to reach the conclusion that the Democrats—in their current form—are right wing.

Calling NAFTA and the ACA "right-wing" is brain worms.

The Left has always hated NAFTA, from the US left (see: Bernie) and the global left even more. The fact Trump occasionally has lined with the left on specific stuff doesn’t make left-wing stuff become far-right lol

Trump's Position On Trade Often Aligns With Left-Wing Economists:

https://www.npr.org/2016/07/01/484284763/trump-s-position-on-trade-often-aligns-with-left-wing-economists
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