In the global terms of political discourse the Democratic party is as of the most recent election now Center Right and the Republican party is Far Right. The Dems in the US, in recent history, started moving to the right with Clinton, arrived at the center with Obama and have now moved into the right with Biden/Harris/Walz.

https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/26/opinion/sunday/republican-platform-far-right.html

https://lawcha.org/2016/11/23/bill-clinton-remade-democratic-party-abandoning-unions-working-class-whites/

https://www.politico.com/story/2008/07/obamas-steady-centrism-011880

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-10-10/2024-election-kamala-harris-policy-shifts

[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hmm interesting context i didn't know about. It would seem to me, however, that this is only a reflection of the direction the party leaders are taking the party towards and not actual sentiments of party members. The democrats are a huge contradiction basically.

[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Sanders in 2016 proved that only the Dem Party leader interests matter to the Dem Party.

[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Guess that explains why Trump is back

[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't go that far. Billionaires want fewer regulations on taxes and monopolies. Trump and Kamala were going to allow the same profits for the oligarchs.

Democratic leadership didn't want Trump elected. They don't have the same levers of power with a Republican majority government.

Dem leadership however has been very disconnected from what the common voter experiences since Clinton. Obama and his grass roots efforts were too large to ignore. They made changes to the process during Obama's second term to favor establishment candidates and representatives. Then made further changes in 2016/2020 during those primaries and didn't hold primaries in 2024.

These led to low voter engagement as they didn't talk about what the common voter was upset about. And during Biden's presidency didn't highlight Republican obstructionism nor did they do anything that would've lowered prices for Americans like medicare for all or breaking up grocery/pharmaceutical/agribusiness monopolies that were price gouging under the auspice of inflation.

This all led to Harris not being elected, not Trump being elected. This is however a pedantic distinction in a two party system.

[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

Fair enough