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Nah, Bernie and AOC are center-right. The average dem is far-right. It’s a conservative party.
In which country are you imagining Bernie and AOC fitting right in with a self proclaimed center-right party?
This may come as a shock to you, but things like universal healthcare aren’t far left policies in normal countries.
Liberals in the US would be conservatives anywhere else. AOC and Bernie are just normal liberals. They wouldn’t even be considered progressive in most NATO countries. The US has a skewed political system because it has always been a right-wing government that, at the very best of times, bordered on fascist.
This is not the best of times.
I live in such a country, and have no problem with imagining Bernie and AOC joining our leftist parties. The Socialist Left Party, the Green Party and the Red Party have policies and visions similar that match what Bernie and AOC is pushing. There are parts of the parties that could be described to the left of Bernie and AOC, but to claim that they belong in the Conservative Party is pretty silly, even if the Conservative Party is pro universal health care.
I didn’t say Bernie and AOC belong in the conservative party. You didn’t understand what I wrote. I would encourage you to read it again.
I had a typo, Dems haven't been center right for decades. They've been far right for years