2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Do you think if HRC had just focused more on economic justice and not on social justice [View all]Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)It is that in our two party system we get to own every last left of center voice that makes the news whether we want them or not.
Whereas in Europe the mainstream left and centrist parties don't get smeared by the fringe left because they affiliate themselves with the some sort of green, socialist or communist party who will have their two or three seats in parliament so their is no similar confusion.
But when someone like this makes the news:
He or she is immediately assumed to be a Democrat which is tremendously to our detriment and why I believe most of these student and other activist movements like Occupy Wall Street are the product of Republican provocateurs who just love to get those "dirty hippies" and "ungrateful students" riled up and in front of the media.