Philipp Rüdiger

Congrats Trevor, they're lucky to have you!

Indeed, that's wild. I fully expected him to be with the "disband the courts" crowd given his posting history.

Calling liberalism a failure because white Americans got bored with their office jobs and decided to vote for a fascist and leftists once again decided that they cared more about ideological purity than actually opposing fascism is a little silly imo, but maybe that's just me.

Maybe there's more of them now but there's always been a strong commie brigade online.

You people are nuts.

No, asking for a source about a well documented ethnic cleansing campaign is embarrassing.

Do you know anything about the level of health care China provides, especially in rural areas?

Genocide denialism. How quaint.

This is an insane take.

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Correct, blocked.

The fuck are you talking about?

Siding with fascists to own the libs now are we?

You're wrong on this, the Trump adjacent parties in Europe are focused on national identity, not European identity. I also think echoing the language is silly but I think a pan-European sense of pride is a good thing at this moment.

That said, the Dems are absolutely failing to hold up their part of that bargain at the moment. If they don't live up to this moment that will feed another few decades of cynicism on the left and at that point I can't blame y'all.

I think Biden was treated quite unfairly, yes he put down that strike but then delivered on all their demands in the aftermath. I'd just like some political pragmatism from the American left given the rise of faScism, which is something the European left learned the hard way.

My main point is that what you ascribe to Dems right lean and the CDUs left lean is more readily explained by the status quo + the realities of electoral politics. Ideologically I have no question that if you gave both parties absolute power for a decade Germany would end up to the right of the US.

No disagreement that the status quo in the US for the bottom quintile is significantly worse and that social issues cloud the comparison, e.g. Dems being to the left of UKs labor on trans issues.

That's not really true though, the IRA was the biggest climate bill in history, it was a massive accomplishment. German infra is also crumbling, maybe not as bad but our centrist gov could barely muster any investment at all. The GOP spends your deficit on tax cuts for the rich, Dems do not.

dissatisfied with what the Democrats achieved in 4 years with razor thin margins. Maybe I can concede that on paper Democrats are to the right of the European center left, but our centrist parties couldn't dream of being as legislatively successful.

Biden governed significantly to the left of Obama, so it's hard for me to follow your comparisons. The child tax credit, the massive infrastructure and industrial policy, the pro labor policy, a complete end to the drone war and Afghanistan withdrawal. I just don't see how Democrats can be

Even from a European perspective though, what Biden achieved was some of the boldest progressive policy making we've seen in decades, despite razor thin vote margins. Yet he got zero credit. The complete lack of pragmatism is what gets me on the American left.

Your electoral system is at fault for this, so sure, you are forced to vote for a party that is to the right of you. But you can't blame the Democrats for having to work within a system that is explicitly built around incrementalism.

public infrastructure and investment agenda in a century while Europe is in absolute stagnation and instead of recognizing that your electoral system forces Democrats into some uncomfortable compromises, American leftists pretend that they are to the right of genuine xenophobic regressives in Europe

a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. So while the US had a stellar recovery from COVID, with broad based wage growth, Germany has slipped into recession with the poorest suffering the most. Biden was by all accounts the most pro labor president in half a century with the most ambitious

On health care, despite the fact that we have 120 years of tradition around universal HC we have a public/private hybrid system and the CDU want to push towards further privatization. On economics, Democrats have pushed absolutely incredible public infrastructure bills while the CDU pushed through

On social issues they also want to restrict abortion (German laws are already much stricter than the US), are against trans rights, even Merkel who was far to the left of Merz voted against gay marriage. They are also much more focused on national identity and against multiculturalism.

These kinds of comparisons are complicated by the fact that the status quo in Europe is further left but that doesn't mean the CDU would stop there. Politics is incremental and despite that Democrats were only a few votes away from a public option (which even Germany does not have).

The Democrats have to represent a significantly larger part of the political spectrum, blame your electoral system.

Absolute nonsense, can Americans please stop romanticizing European conservatives. Democrats are significantly to the left of most centrist parties in Europe.