Baraka_Guru

Well if you look at what goes on in Canadian politics, you will see actually working left politics. Real-life, self-proclaimed leftist parties holding actual real-life seats of power. You see the same thing in South America too. The U.S. is virtually surrounded by it. I won't even get into Europe.

The U.S. is essentially a two-party system. One party is essentially centrist (often Third Way), while the other is essentially centre-right. There is no left-wing political power in the U.S. There's left politics, but they operate on the fringes and in the grassroots.

Much of the "socialist" aspects in America that people are concerned with, and even those things that people don't even talk much about anymore, are so mainstream in contemporary politics that even conservative politicians have accepted them as the norm and deal with them as political realities.

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