Re: Ultimates Annual 01 = american propaganda?

Paul O'Brien <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:MW25NbCASe$CFwrZ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> In message <7k5qf1tg3je0cikhnpqplfbv5ikqsfbo75@xxxxxxx>, Bill
> Haverberg <haverber@xxxxxxxx> writes
>>
>>Um, you mean by *some* American standards. Keep in mind our recent
>>elections for Lord Protect^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HPresident have been
>>evenly split when you look at the popular vote.
>
> Even the Democrats would be considered centre-right by Scottish
> standards. US politics doesn't *have* a left wing, as the rest of the
> western world would understand the concept. It's all just varying
> shades of right. Europeans tend to prefer the Democrats because at
> least their policies would be considered electable by local standards;
> somebody running on a Republican platform in Europe would be
> considered an unelectable extremist.
>
> From a global perspective, US politics is Very Right-Wing Indeed, and
> one of the factors that marks out the US from other western nations.

I actually took a class called American Society where I learned this
very thing. The teacher outright taught that, based on the view-point
of the rest of the world, all of America was on the right. (This is a
generalization and doesn't include a small minority that would fit into
the actual left.)
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