• Hubi@feddit.orgOP
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    2 days ago

    Not really. The conservatives have tried adopting talking points from the far right, but all it did was legitimize these stances. It actually caused even more voters to shift further right, with moderates becoming increasingly demoralized. The right will always vote right, no matter what the details of the actual policies are. The left will just further divide itself by taking conservative stances. A party has to fit a niche, and you won’t get that by just taking policies from others.

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      A party has to fit a niche, and you won’t get that by just taking policies from others.

      Thank you for saying this. Any faction which tries to be close but no quite identical to another partys philosophy is going to have no real voters, and they will lose. Its what happened in the US. You have to dance with the person who accompanied you to the dance.

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      It is possible to be economically and socially left but still have issues with migration making problems.

      Shoehorning progressives into uncomfortable stances isn’t the way either