The problem is how far the entire country's politics has shifted right. They are far left in comparison to the other politicians up for comparison. We literally have no representation for Marxism, communism, socialism, or anarchism. Because of that, it's basically all right wing politicians by a proper metric but some will fall left of the center of the median line for the politicians we have.

I do agree that America as a whole has a political literacy problem.

[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

We literally have no representation for Marxism, communism, socialism, or anarchism.

That's a problem. And calling a moderate centrist "left" doesn't help in the slightest, because you stop noticing the gap and readjust your expectations based on that.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

How do you think the public would react to actually pinning these politicians to the part of the spectrum they actually belong to?

You have to fix the political literacy problem first or you'll reinforce the wrongly held beliefs that go off vibes instead of reality.

Also, while we're at it, we might also consider the fact that the reason I even lable Biden as not just straight up far right (not alt right), is because his politics has changed quite a lot over time. He's moved toward the center. Lots of the conservative politicians we have started out right of center and have moved pretty hard into either the alt right or the far right. We can't change one without the other and if we change the education we'll fix both problems in tandem.