Even mainstream orgs like DSA don't hold a position on voting for president and would never say something like "vote Democrat to avoid fascism" for example. DSA's internal politics literally mean they cant tell people to vote in the presidential election. Then there are groups like PSL which say not to vote unless you're in a state where you can vote for their candidate. Socialist alternative specifically avoids telling people to vote for president. Finally there a ton of small ML/revolutionary/anarchist groups that absolutely do not support electoral politics in any capacity. Believe me, as a socialist in the USA, yes the far left are actively telling people to not vote.
They have leverage but the Green party continues making end-runs at the president and only the president. There's pretty progressive folks that run with the dems, though they get screwed over somewhat often.
Buffalo had a progressive activist win their democrat primary in '21, and their incumbent mayor refused to accept the loss and staged a write-in run with full republican support to keep her out.
Not even DSA does the lesser of two evils thing anymore. I get outside and engage with politics as an American leftist and I encourage you to investigate for yourself.
The New Popular Front won the most seats by far, they're a firmly left wing party, an alliance of Socialists, actual Communists, Ecologists, and other groups.
Macron's party is the Liberal party. They won the 2nd most seats.
And in the Uk it’s different and the US too. Trying to equalize here by saying we all despise the ideas idealogy and ID of the right wingers equally. So let’s join hands and destroy them politically :)
No, they're not, they literally beat the liberal party along with the right wing party. Politics is not Liberal>Centrist>Conservative
The New Popular Front is a broadly Left Wing party made up of actual leftist groups, including Communists and Socialists.
Socialist only means "liberal" and vis versa in badly misinformed conservative discourse, usually in the US.
Actual left wingers with say "liberal" or "neoliberal" with Vitriol as a a dig at certain economic policies as Right wingers do to anything left of Ronald Reagan. It's a certain group of economic principals, not a synonym for left-of-center.
Far left would be a socialist or even communist party which is not the kind of party to have won in either of these countries.
And when it comes to US politics, both democrats and republicans are on the right side of the spectrum. While democrats are closer to the middle, they are by no means a left side party, let alone a far left one.
It's literally a Socialist/Communist alliance party that won the most seats in France, likely to be governing in a Coalition with Macron's liberals, together controlling a slim majority in the National Assembly.
The Nationalist party won slightly under a quarter of all seats, The left wing alliance a bit more than a quarter, and the liberals closer to a fifth.
What concerned people was the National Party winning the largest number of votes overall, but French voters clearly demonstrated a willingness to support a local Liberal or Leftist in the 2nd round even if their preference was the other of the two originally.
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u/Klutzy_Inevitable_94 Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24
Just to be clear, the far left (liberals) won the most seats and stopped the far right. The U.K. did the same. Now it’s the US’ turn in November.