And as Piketty & CO. have shown, the more polarized a nation's major parties are on (so-called) social issues, the more likely it is to see highly-educated voters backing parties of the left and non-college-educated ones backing those of the right. academic.oup.com/qje/article/13
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And w/r/t to Hispanic voters, the Democrats' losses in 2020 seem to have been concentrated among those who identify as conservative (ideological self-id is messy, but identifying as conservative correlates very strongly with rightwing social views). equisresearch.medium.com/2020-post-mort
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Can you tell me which "left wing" political parties in which countries are as left wing as they were in the 1970s i.e. didn't have a turn to the right?
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On economic issues, none come to mind. On questions of reproductive freedom, LGBT rights, the environment, in some cases immigration, and other (so-called) social issues, I think many have moved left, including the Democrats
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Okay but I understood you as bringing up the international example because it casts doubt on the particular factors re:neoliberalism that Daniel was pointing to.
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But if you agree that this was an international pattern than bringing up other countries only serves to make having this conversation on twitter more difficult.
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So, the decline of trade unions, full employment, and collective bargaining rights are a cross-national phenomenon but they did not impact all nations equally; the U.S. has experienced an especially severe collapse in private sector unionization...
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the Democrats' retreat from (pseudo-social-democracy-lite) was especially pronounced, and structurally higher unemployment bite harder here than in Western nations with real safety nets. So, the fact that a similar polarization of opinion and partisan voting patterns...
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has been witnessed in nations with variable degrees of neoliberalization is significant imo (But I agree that Twitter is not an ideal venue for this discussion)
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I wouldn't lump "environment" in with the other "social issues" on which the Dems have moved left since in the 70's the EPA, the Clean Air and Toxic Substances Acts, etc etc were established with solid bipartisan acceptance.
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Even as late as 2011 this ad starring Gingrich and Pelosi was still possible.
What happened on the environment is that the right shifted way right into a post-truth, anti-rational, anti-science politics that dragged much of their platform along.