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[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck I really hate Labor.

I can’t wait for a left wing party to be in charge of this country again for once.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Its funny for me being from america. Labor sounds so much like it should be left wing. Although they might be relative to our crazy right leaning everything.

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 5 points 1 year ago

At one point they were left and most of the great things we have in this country are from that time.

But an absolute shit cunt of a man named Bob Hawke decided 80s neoliberalism was the way forward and both parties have happily been selling off the country together ever since.

[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's because US politics is ridiculously conservative compared to Australian politics. Some have even argued that our major conservative party, the Liberal Party, is actually more left-leaning than your Democratic Party.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah democrats are definately center and I would say mostly right of center but they do have some generally progressive folks but the party is very broad across the spectrum. Our republicans I can't even call conservative now as they seem to be in some sort of internal competition with each other on who can be the craziest.

[–] billytheid@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No, absolutely not. The Democrats are hardline fiscal neo-conservatives and on social policy are generally pretty conservative(even had a non-Christian leader?).

You don’t seem to appreciate that your right wing is literally charging into the Hitler/Mussolini/Stalin ballpark right now… they’re so far off the normal spectrum it’s like watching a movie.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I mean we have folks like bernie but yeah anywhere else he would be centerist.

[–] billytheid@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Your left wing is WAY more conservative then out right wing… and our right wing is pretty out there