On: Waymo Was on a Roll in San Francisco. Then One of Its Cars Killed a Cat

[terminalshort]

Of course they don't. Political labels don't cross national boundaries easily. Even right next door in Canada "conservative" means nothing like it does in the US.

[tehjoker → terminalshort]

Yea they do when you have a firm foundation on political theory. However, parties often diverge from their name.

[Workaccount2 → tehjoker]

And people often have no idea what the actual principles of an ideology are, they go with whatever their friends/family/bubble says is good.

[tehjoker → Workaccount2]

that’s true, but usually there is some kind of foundational need that is being satisfied by the candidate or policies, or in the case of middle class people, some kind of postmodern spectacle as was innovated in the 1930s