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by seizethegdgap 1475 days ago
Abortion is about to become illegal in almost half the country, police departments overwhelmingly haven't been defunded, congress didn't pass an infrastructure bill, the federal minimum wage is still $7.25, there's still been no repercussions for 1/6, trans kids can't get proper healthcare in 2 republican States (and growing), there's no universal healthcare or student debt forgiveness, and there's still no meaningful gun reform.

Your claim that the left has gone "so far left that everyone looks like they are far right comparatively" is detached from reality.
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Auracle 1475 days ago
>Abortion is about to become illegal in almost half the country

A Supreme Court decision reversing one that was dubiously made in the first place. It'll be interesting to see how many of those states will roll back abortion from being illegal to something more reasonable.

>Police departments overwhelmingly haven't been defunded

An incredibly far left idea

>Congress didn't pass an infrastructure bill

It's pretty far left to say we need to spend trillions on new projects at a time with high inflation and a shortage of workers

>The federal minimum wage is still $7.25

Which we found out is largely inconsequential in a time when McDonalds is advertising $17 an hour.

>There's still been no repercussions for 1/6

Some people are going to prison for the riot. What other repercussions should there be?

>Trans kids can't get proper healthcare in 2 republican States (and growing)

Alternatively, two states are protecting children before they have the capacity to make completely life altering decisions.

>There's no universal healthcare or student debt forgiveness

Student debt forgiveness is an incredibly far left idea

>And there's still no meaningful gun reform

Most of things you listed, like this one, are things that the left wants shifted to the left. The whole point is that the left has shifted left, and pointing out that things that they want haven't been accomplished doesn't dispute that. It just means the right has been fighting to maintain the status quo - and certainly doesn't show that they've shifted right.

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eli_gottlieb 1475 days ago
>It's pretty far left to say we need to spend trillions on new projects at a time with high inflation and a shortage of workers

No it's not. The high inflation is precisely because of underinvestment in fixed capital and infrastructure.

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travisathougies 1475 days ago
> Student debt forgiveness is an incredibly far left idea

Student debt forgiveness is an incredibly aristocratic idea by which the slowly establishing american aristocracy seeks to tax peasants for their failed lavish lifestyles. It's not 'far left', and it shows just how duplicitous the supposed 'left' in this country has gotten. They're openly advocating for wealth transfers from the poor to the rich, and are attempting to portray themselves as the sole party of empathy, working class sympathies, etc. It's really something to watch from the outside.

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aerostable_slug 1475 days ago
Drag Queen Story Hour is pretty far left. So are our abortion policies.

OTOH, Biden is the one increasing police budgets. Maybe the party is "spreading" on the spectrum?

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