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Elections Most extreme parties to win major elections in the Five Eyes nations since 1920.

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Based on their manifestos.

US presidential election (1920-2020)
Right-wing: 1984 Republican Party (Reagan): 33.6
Left-wing: 2020 Democratic Party (Biden): -24.662
Difference: 58.262

UK general election (1945-2019)
Right-wing: 1987 Conservative Party (Thatcher): 30.468
Left-wing: 1974 Labour Party (Wilson): -48.5
Difference: 78.968

Canadian federal general election (1945-2019)
Right-wing: 2011 Conservative Party (Harper): 26.265
Left-wing: 2015 Liberal Party (Trudeau): -20.683
Difference: 46.948

Australian federal election (1946-2022)
Right-wing: 1951 Liberal Party (Menzies): 53.9
Left-wing: 1974 Labor Party (Whitlam): -34.8
Difference: 88.7

New Zealand general election (1946-2020)
Right-wing:
Left-wing:
Difference:

Most recent UK general elections
  1. 2019 Conservative Party (Johnson): 6.214
  2. 2017 Conservative Party (May): -2.607
  3. 2015 Conservative Party (Cameron): -1.574
  4. 2010 Conservative Party (Cameron): 17.54
  5. 2005 Labour Party (Blair): -3.09
  6. 2001 Labour Party (Blair): 1.473
  7. 1997 Labour Party (Blair): 8.072
  8. 1992 Conservative Party (Major): 27.9
  9. 1987 Conservative Party (Thatcher): 30.468
  10. 1983 Conservative Party (Thatcher): 29
  11. 1979 Conservative Party (Thatcher): 24.4
  12. Oct 1974 Labour Party (Wilson): -27.5
  13. Feb 1974 Labour Party (Wilson): -48.5
  14. 1970 Conservative Party (Heath): 8.2
 
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What fucking awful website is that? And Biden? I think jimmy carter is more left than biden
 
The current regime is Hell bent on completely changing the culture. It's right out of a dystopian novel.

Yes we'd go back the the 1980's, Heck, I'd settle for even going back to 2019. We lived in a different world just 2 years ago.
 
Biden radical? He’s basically the definition of a neo-liberal who panders to the “progressive” wing of his party but does nothing.

The only near radical thing he’s done is his vax mandate. Other than that pretty much another corporate politician with a dressing of blm and lgbt rather than Merica and tractors
 
An argument for Regan as right wing extreme can be made if we go by modern right wing economic principles/policies…

But what idea or policy are you/they basing Biden on? So far he isn’t even as left wing “extreme” as Obama, (who’s signature legislation btw was basically right wing devised healthcare policy). By most standards even Richard Nixon was more left wing than both of these guys.
 
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12ga. said:
Biden is not rad lol. He's a corp whore like all since Reagan. He sunk everything progressive.
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/12/the-democrats-are-trying-to-lose

Can't be any other way because billionaires and corporations present who we are allowed to vote for.

Reagan for sure rad but stagflation/oil squeeze people were ready for anything.
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Carter and Reagan did a lot of then deregulation. Think a lot of that was needed. Especially for the airlines, rails and trucking. Problem is people only saw it as good and threw out the good regulations with the bad and just went nuts and deregulated basically everything.
 
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...and I'd much rather the 1980's over whatever the fuck it is that we have now.
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Are you sure about that?

When I graduated high school in the early 80's, we were in the depths of a horrendous recession. Unemployment here was pretty much as bad as at the height of the COVID pandemic, 15-17 percent, depending on the area. That's why I chuckle at the idea of lockdowns being the death of the economy. At least after the lockdown people have lots of money to spend that they've been saving. Not so in 1983.

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US GDP growth in the early 1980s. The short recession at the start of the decade and the following brief period of growth as well as the deeper recession in 1981 and 1982 have led to the period being characterized as a W-shaped recession.
Percent Change From Preceding Period in Real Gross Domestic Product (annualized; seasonally adjusted); Average GDP growth 1947–2009
 
Every single politician sells his soul to the highest bidder. Lol at anyone who thinks they have your best interest at heart.
 
Are we still doing that clown-world shit here in the War Room.

Calling Joe Biden "Left Wing". Joe Biden?

Joe Biden is a corporate centerist. Call me me when he starts nationalising things.
 
Nixon was our last left wing president. Look it up.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=nixon+last+liberal+president&ia=web

Even carter deregulated trucking which almost halved workers salaries.

Don't let the culture war distract you. All that matters is green for most Americans - once you have that you're in a much more pleasant disposition. e.g. People in the burbs are not robbing and shooting each other
 
12ga. said:
Nixon was our last left wing president. Look it up.
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That's something you hear a lot, and all it says is that the speaker is completely clueless.

Really, it's not possible for an extremist (relative to the era) to win the presidency in America, but every president is going to be described as an extremist by their opponents.
 
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