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Debate this! (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

if they have an actual majority (more than 50%), they would but luckily that's not the case... yet

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

I'm an American so when we say "Europe" we assume it's understood that I mean Western Europe. Lol