> You can't talk about anything on the political spectrum to the left of Bernie Sanders, who, in Europe, would be a rather tame social democrat.
I hear this repeatedly, and I'm not sure this placement of most American politicians on the same dimension as European politicians (if there's even a single dimension there) works very well. I would certainly agree on fiscal issues, for example, but on social issues, at least compared to the western European country in which I live, I suspect Sanders or other far-left US politicians would be on the far-left here as well.
I hear this repeatedly, and I'm not sure this placement of most American politicians on the same dimension as European politicians (if there's even a single dimension there) works very well. I would certainly agree on fiscal issues, for example, but on social issues, at least compared to the western European country in which I live, I suspect Sanders or other far-left US politicians would be on the far-left here as well.