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In reply to the discussion: How the extreme left gave us Nixon, Bush and now Trump [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)they aren't.
They support preserving the ACA in the short run and ultimately replacing it with Medicare-for-all...they generally support cuts in the war budget or at a bare minimum no increase, they are clearly and pro-choice and pro-easy contraception acces...they want it to be easier to people to unionize their workplaces. They want taxes increased on the wealthy and a higher minimum wage. And they don't accept that the only way to get access to global markets is to pit workers here against workers in other countries in a race to the bottom on wages, benefits and conditions.
Centrist politics doesn't involve anything remotely similar to any of these things...centrism in the US and Canada is nothing more than "it's enough that it's a centrist government cutting programs and cutting taxes for the rich".