Yes, that is a feature of democratic systems. Parties want to get voted in. So they bend their programs to achieve that goal. I live in Germany and here all parties are leaning further and further to the right, since the AfD (nationalist-conservative, some party members Neo-nazi) party is gaining in almost every poll.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If all that was at play here was mere democracy, we'd have an M4A candidate. The population is solidly to the left of either party on the majority of issues, but they get no voice because liberal democracy is an exercise in choosing between the options that capitalists have picked for you.

[–] thilo@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Your bubble is.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

This is much less snappy than it is grammatically ambiguous.

[–] thilo@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Let me rephrase: "Your echochamber is"

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Could I interest you in adding a direct object to the sentence?

[–] thilo@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Your bubble/echo-chamber is solidly to the left of either party on the majority of issues. The bulk of the population is mostly fine with or approving of a right-shift in media policy.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't know what you're on about wrt "media policy" but I'm not saying Americans are communists. It's been demonstrated in survey after survey that social-democratic positions are generally the most popular.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

Exactly. Literally every poll confirms this. But they aren't interested in facts. They're only into Facts and Logic(tm)

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The bulk of the population doesn't give a shit about any of this lol