• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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    It shows how much the left-right goalposts have shifted, that even centrist and centre-left policies and positions are seen as “far-left”.

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      That’s a common tactic from the right: framing absolutely anything even remotely progressive as “far left”.
      Like “side loading” apps.
      Works too.

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      I’m with you on the shifting baseline (towards the right), but to call Die Linke “centrist” or “centre-left”… Let’s say: perhaps it’s the overcorrection we need.

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        I gotta be honest I haven’t investigated their policies that deep but they seem like every leftist European party, with moderate takes, not that radical and absolutely not extremist like a “far” nomiker implies

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        Please tell me where Die Linke is left of the 20th century SPD, hell even the Wirtschaftswunder CDU would be roughly the same.