• TronBronson@lemmy.world
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    June 2018 was a long time ago now. She came across pretty far to the left. When considering the sliding American center going right, she remains far to the left of the American political spectrum.

    Can you identify 5-10 congresspeople futher to the left of AOC?

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      congresspeople

      See, that’s a specific group.
      And what you call ‘to the left of them’ is simply and objectively ‘less right’

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        Anyone doing leftist purity tests is usually where I start with far left. I can fully agree that America does not represent many real leftist views because there are not many real leftist in America. They are not a majority.

        They do wonderful things in smaller towns where they are the majority. But yes, I agree with you. There are no real leftist in the US government and that’s pretty much by design because they’re not well represented in the general public.

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          3rd party avg about 5% in the US, and even then they aren’t necessarily all left.
          So what you describe as ‘not a majority’ is more accurately extremely rare.