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Originally Posted by aohige
If the Left was marginalized, they wouldn't have been able to wrest control from the right and be the winning party like they are right now.
You know the Liberals took the current office, right?
Which sounds good in words, but unfortunately they are bunch of incompetent monkeys.
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I meant the "Left," then. The US Democratic Party is not "Left," and the Liberals under Noda don't look very Left either. Ishihawa and company seem pretty far to the right, certainly in world terms. I see them as similar to people like LePen in France, though without the emphasis on immigration. As here in the US, Japan has a center/center-right party in power, a further right party, the LDP, and then far-right voices like Ishihawa. Japan had an active Communist party in the 1960s; do they have any successors today?