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    3 days ago

    Yeah, because we have more than two parties, so a simple majority isn’t automatically an absolute one. But if you group the far right with the increasingly far right “conservatives”, it looks much more bleak.

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      But if you group the far right with the increasingly far right “conservatives”, it looks much more bleak.

      we’ve been in that situation since the 1980’s; our center-right and our far right are our only choices for president now.

      i used to think europe’s democracies were ahead since they carried on with progressive initiatives the americans stopped doing in the 1970’s, but now i wonder if europe’s lurch rightwards is them catching up to the americans.

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        On one side of Europe there were French, on other - Soviet.

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          I’m an American so when we say “Europe” we assume it’s understood that I mean Western Europe. Lol