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by trophycase 2379 days ago
Most of the democratic party is conservative.
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Politics are relative. There are also far more than two neat little dimensions on which to analyze political orientation. The 2 principle component vectors of progressive/conservative beliefs between, say, UK and US are not aligned if one reduces the political spheres to 2 space.

People really need to stop thinking inside of 2 little boxes, RvsD or progressive vs conservative. This reductionist thinking is really bad for society.

Your personal Overton window is likely extremely liberal/progressive and outside the mainstream.
Mainstream for who though? The Overton window for the United states is very different from Canada's even though they're right next to each-other. For a lot of countries, the United States democratic party is fairly far to the right.
On the contrary, yours is extremely conservative/reactionary, and even moreso outside the mainstream.