>>48647880>The status quo of the western first world is neoliberalismDepends. These nations enjoy strong state programs, universal healthcare, various forms of paid vacation, affordable (sometimes taxpaid) higher education, actual active involvement from real actual socialist parties, strong unions, etc.
The majority of their PMs are actually mostly social democrats. What you call a progressive utopia, they just see as pragmatic governing. Internationally, your so called "far left" Sanders isn't much different than a lot of centrist. A lot of his policies match perfectly with outgoing German conservative Angela Merkel, with the exception of weed legalization which is more in line with Trudeau.
>>48648102Nah, I personally just consider them standard right. Americans get really crazy with tossing around "far this/that" with no nuance or understanding of what they are referring to. Socdems actually work historically well with classical liberals, so as to have an actual true center.
