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I want to know where Mandami fits compared to my own nation's political left-right spectrum, going through his stances and theirs, how do I go about it? (lemmy.ml)

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Now I know a country is not the same as a city, but my country, the Netherlands, is small and densily populated, so maybe they're somewhat comparable?

I hear Mandami is considered from extreme-left to what he professes himself as democratic socialist, which to me would mean left-wing. I however keep pushing every US politician one or two positions to the right, but that's just vibes. So I would like to compare his stances to at least five political parties from my country, but where do I start?

Should I post an ask Lemmy on each topic how they compare to Mandami starting with housing? Because I would imagine the stances of each party on just one topic would already make quite a long post.

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I'll try and make several posts on this subject.

Part 1 - My vibes list of American youtubers & politicians

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (6 children)

In European terms, he's just slightly left of center.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Are there any European countries who have implemented a state owned grocery store? Or have a minimum wage of €25/hr? Or implemented a city wide rent freeze (not just rent control)?

Not saying it in a bad way as a lot of his policies are great, coherent, and well thought out, but calling him only slightly left of center is a heavy exaggeration especially when you have the UK going pretty far right on anti trans movements, Italy with their only first trimester abortions, and France with their anti face covering policies

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I'm going to agree with you here.
I put Mandami left of center until I rethought
on what I often see and hear from the center-left,
and words often used by the left.

"I don't think we should have billionaires" sounds very much left-wing to me,
rather than center-left.

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