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[-] KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

From a European perspective, the US centre-right are more conservative than the European fringe right. The European far right doesn't (typically) want to restrict abortion, sabotage education or reinstate child labor for example. And are mostly about increasing and militarizing police, disenfranchising minorities, and different schemes to control that only the right people get to vote.

I'd argue that the US centre right is actually as radical, or even more so than the European fringe right, they are certainly causing about the same commotion, but of course have much more power in the US.

[-] DieguiTux8623@feddit.it 26 points 4 months ago

Italian here: our "centre right" is actively on restricting abortion, dismantling public healthcare and education, deportation of immigrants, isolation of disabled students, eliminating LGBT rights and militarizing public spaces (with already students/protesters beaten by the police in several occasions) and of course jailing journalists and controlling the public media.

The only thing that sets them apart from their US equivalent is child labor, but they already have prevented the approval of minimum wages and other social safety net measures.

[-] KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago

I'd agree that there are some variation in the European far right. In contrast to Italy, Spain and Russia: German, French, UK, Nordic far right are not restricting abortion, but are doing most of the rest (northern European ones not as much dismantling welfare/healthcare as making it inaccessible to some, especially immigrants, trans, lgbt, etc).

[-] s7ryph@kbin.social 11 points 4 months ago

I would argue that the centre-right party is the democrats. They are more in line with a European centre-right party. We have no true leftist party due to the 2 party system.

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

The US center right is Dems. They're not good at all but definitely milder than their and Europe's far right.

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