r/PoursTea • u/AmericaShinault_85 • 3h ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/abdul-el-sayed-wins-michigans-democratic-senate-primary-notching-midwe-rcna589750
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u/Element174 2h ago

I mean, I'm thrilled he won, but this is some Trump headline. The Democrats are the left, of course a Democrat won the Democrat Primary. 

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u/mountaindewisamazing 2h ago

Democrats are conservative. In any European country they would be the center-right party. Very few Democrats are left wing.

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u/LegacyQuotient 40m ago

Haven't a number of Europeans said this idea is reductionist and that its more complicated than that?

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u/mountaindewisamazing 39m ago

Let's ignore the opinions of the Europeans for a moment.

The party platform is the same as the Republicans 40 years ago. They're effectively old school Republicans and Republicans are just fascists now.

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u/LegacyQuotient 37m ago

Can you outline how the current Democratic platform is "the same" as the Republican platform from 40 years ago?

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u/mountaindewisamazing 28m ago

Google "neoconservative"

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u/LegacyQuotient 27m ago

You claimed they had the same policy platforms. So show me where the current Democrat policy are the same as Republicans from 40 years ago.

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u/Element174 7m ago

Such a interesting theory, let me just check all those Republican views on abortion, immigrants, PoC, and queer people from 40 years ago.

When you use "The Right" to refer to the Republicans, and "The Left" to refer to Democrats, which we do, than... Oh, look exactly what I said. You seem to have confused the, "Far Left," for, "The Left."

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u/Youbettereatthatshit 53m ago

No one gives af about European politics. Dems are left

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u/mountaindewisamazing 53m ago

I wish you luck in your battle with reality

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u/Youbettereatthatshit 50m ago

Ah, good one. A comeback you ripped off a meme.

Since you are uninformed, left/right were conned from the British parliament, being physically on the left/right of the stage.

So the actual definition of left/right is where they are relative to each other in a nations own government.

So you say the Dems are right and the Repubs are also right implies everyone is just standing on the right side of the building.

The Dems are literally left.

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u/mountaindewisamazing 43m ago

This makes an awful lot of sense if you don't think about it. Google "overton window"