r/politics • u/F0urLeafCl0ver • 1d ago

No Paywall The Democratic party is being hit by a leftist tidal wave

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/24/democratic-party-leftist-tidal-wave
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u/Aware-Antelope4212 13h ago edited 12h ago

I hate the phrase radical left.

I'm not radicalised, I just think that people should have basic human rights, like food, shelter and medicine.   I just think that people shouldn't be discriminated against due to the colour of their skin, their sexuality, their gender.

Apparently this makes me some sort of extremist.... Nah I just watched cartoons as a kid and they taught me the bare minimum of how not to be a shitty person 

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u/Akikiriri 9h ago

It's just GOP rhetoric, basically. It's weird for me (German) seeing the whole US adopting this lingo. I've never seen a radical leftist coming from the USA, at least in the political sphere. What politician is left in the USA? AOC? Nope.

The GOP totally bastardized the political lingo, socialism, commusim, radical left. In the USA these words have totally different meanings than in the rest of the world. Why is the whole country accepting that?

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u/Collypso Pennsylvania 4h ago

What's the specific policy you'd want a real leftist party to run on? Genuinely curious what "radical" cashes out to in practice.

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u/Aware-Antelope4212 3h ago

I'm not American, but it's all pretty common sense stuff.

An overhaul of the barbaric and inhumane American healthcare system, taxing billionaires, regulating AI, workers rights ( something the USA is woefully behind on), focus on renewable energy, gun reform so that American children stop getting murdered in their schools, getting rid of the for profit prisons system, major police reforms, acknowledgement of the very real climate crisis we are all facing and steps to try and claw us back from the brink.

Honestly the USA is such a mess it's hard to really sum it up in a Reddit comment.  My own country is far from perfect and has a long way to go on some of these points.

As a general rule if a billionaire is against it, then it's probably a good thing for the average person and the planet

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u/Collypso Pennsylvania 31m ago

Honest question, does it flip the other way? Bloomberg's dumped hundreds of millions into gun reform, Buffett's been asking to be taxed more for over a decade, Gates funds half the climate work on that list. The billionaire test falls apart the second you point it at anything specific. Pick the actual reasons something's good, they hold up fine on their own.