tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068633250101025716.post2371837460369547542..comments2023-09-29T11:23:38.668+02:00Comments on For what we are... they will be: US elections: right democrats lose, left democrats winMajuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068633250101025716.post-25780395781829394662010-11-09T04:05:13.901+01:002010-11-09T04:05:13.901+01:00Spanish and Italian tories are definitively to the...Spanish and Italian tories are definitively to the right of most Republicans, who are not openly supporting outright fascism in their own country (at least not openly). As for the Tea Party, they are reminding, as I said elsewhere, of Spanish tories, who are nothing but fascists under a varnish. Former Franco minister Manuel Fraga remains to date the honorary president of their party (as he founded it as a right-wing reaction to a more liberal coalition of right-wing forces). They are tightly tied to the worst of the Catholic Church and have a lot of ignorant but authoritarian politicians as the former minister of education and current president of Madrid region, Esperanza Aguirre. They belong to the Christian-Democrat Euro-bloc but are to the right or English tories in fact. Only Berlusconi and possibly someone like Dutch "demo-fascist" Wilders compares well with them.Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9068633250101025716.post-65953843274910820002010-11-08T23:38:51.629+01:002010-11-08T23:38:51.629+01:00Part of the reason that progressives were safer is...Part of the reason that progressives were safer is that they come from generally left leaning districts, while Blue Dogs often come from generally right leaning districts. Right leaning districts support Republican replacements more than left leaning districts do.<br /><br />It is also worth noting for European-American comparison purposes, that the Republican party, and particularly its Tea Party faction this election cycle, is well to the right of European Tories and Christian Democrats.<br /><br />Tea Party Republicans are roughly in line with European Neofascists on the left-right political scale. Non-Tea Party Republicans are probably about half way between Neofascists in Europe and the Tory/Christian Democratic parties of Europe.<br /><br />The vanishing species of "moderate Republicans" like Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine (most of the others are in the Northeast) and most Blue Dog Democrats are roughly on a par with European Tory/Christian Democratic parties of Europe.<br /><br />The Democrats in the middle of their party, who are neither Blue Dogs nor Progressive Caucus members are between these positions, perhaps comparable to the U.K.'s Liberal Party.<br /><br />Progressive Caucuses Democrats are probably roughly in line on the political spectrum with Democratic Socialists in Europe and the Labor Party in England.Andrew Oh-Willekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.com