People who say "Democrats are as bad as Republicans" are almost as bad as Republicans.
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The_Piper wrote:I'm putting this here, because she mentions Trump. As a crooked pile of garbage senator said at a Trump rally (and at the capitol before that), "it must suck to be that dumb."
It must suck to be that lousy, too. But she's good for comic relief here. I'd never heard Latinx before. I guess it's neutral for a group rather than using Latino/Latina. I'd just say Latino.
Oh yeah, reading the wiki and it says it's used for gender neutral individuals, not groups of people of different genders. My bad.Alan C wrote:I had thought the term latin-x is intended to be a gender-neutral term. Latino is man and Latina is woman?
How do Trump’s Republicans compare to the rest of the world’s political parties?
On conventional left-right measurements, there’s not much distinguishing America’s Republican party from mainstream conservative movements in Europe. In fact, when it comes to economic left and right, there are governing parties on the right in Europe who are more “extreme”.
On attitudes towards ethnic minorities and respect for liberal democratic values, however, it’s a different story.
The Global Party Survey (GPS), a project authored by Harvard University’s Pippa Norris, has sought to allow international comparisons between political parties on a variety of issues by surveying almost 2,000 academic experts on their relative positions on various spectrums. Those include the social and economic views of those parties, as well as whether they are populist or pluralistic in outlook.
The survey’s findings suggest America’s Republican Party remains “mainstream” in many respects (on a scale of conventional liberalism-conservatism, the GOP sits comfortably near Britain’s Tories and the French Republicans) - but not when it comes to its defending the rights of ethnic minorities and standing up for liberal principles.
On those issues it is far more extreme than Europe’s centre-right governing parties and sits closer to the likes of Austria’s Freedom Party, Turkey’s Justice and Development Party, and India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - the governing movement often accused of inciting hatred against the country’s Muslim minority.
OlivierK wrote:To be honest, I'm surprised where they've put the US Democrats.
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