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Except that is completely invalid and untrue.. while the american left is certainly a different sort of left than other areas, there are ways in which the american left is **more** left than the european left and in other ways it is less left.
this chart was clearly done by someone with a pretty strong opinion and what I feel is not a valid understanding of the compass.
Its not like that website has a reputation for objective accuracy... it was a test someone came up with using very little scientific scrutiny. The compass itself existed long before the website.
> It's not a different kind of left. The left always has been about economics
I never said it wasnt about economics.. when i said it was a different kind of left I meant that they have different priorities in economics than the european left but still strongly leftist in nature.
Take taxes as an example, generally the redistribution of wealth, and thus progressive taxes, are a strong indicator of left vs right. The USA has **significantly** more progressive tax than most of europe. That being that the ratio difference between the tax percentage for our highest tax bracket and our lowest tax bracket is **much** higher than in europe. So by that measure America is significantly **more** liberal than europe.
On the flip side however america spends less of its money on health care , which would be a leftist principle, and thus is less left in that regard.
so yea America is absolutely just as leftist as europe its just they are, as I said, a different sort of left, they take certain leftist policies to a greater extreme, and others to a lesser extreme.
@Faket
as an American who shamelessly identifies with the left, I couldn't agree more. They make you feel schizophrenic in this country.
@freemo
That chart was done by the people who make the test. It's not a different kind of left. The left always has been about economics. this culture war shit was thrown on us in the 80s as a smokescreen.