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I don’t actually think it’s far left though. And they are certainly much less effective than other socially liberal parties in Europe. In the UK it was our right wing party that legalised gay marriage, for example. Europe is a lot more woke than the US (and a good thing too)


The American left seems to be very focused on making sure nobody will ever need to feel even the slightest bit offended or pressured. Best intentions, I'm sure, but I don't think that's an achievable or even a desirable goal. A healthy society requires a certain amount of peaceful friction.

Europe seems to be following America's lead (as we always do/did), but it hasn't reached the same extremes and probably won't, imho.




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