• Bloomcole@lemm.ee
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    congresspeople

    See, that’s a specific group.
    And what you call ‘to the left of them’ is simply and objectively ‘less right’

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      Anyone doing leftist purity tests is usually where I start with far left. I can fully agree that America does not represent many real leftist views because there are not many real leftist in America. They are not a majority.

      They do wonderful things in smaller towns where they are the majority. But yes, I agree with you. There are no real leftist in the US government and that’s pretty much by design because they’re not well represented in the general public.

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        3rd party avg about 5% in the US, and even then they aren’t necessarily all left.
        So what you describe as ‘not a majority’ is more accurately extremely rare.