But mate the F 1 is on <| sep |> That ' s not exactly what I mean . In the US , liberal and conservative are just varnishes of the same capitalist approach they ' ve been pushing for a long time , since the red scare . Only Sanders lately has been the one to introduce the term socialdemocracy in the public discourse without a huge backlash . Meanwhile in Europe and South America is fairly common to have parties of all flavors across the board , from actual extreme left to extreme right wing parties , and even parties devoted to specific issues like FEMEN or Pirate Party . This is simply unheard of in the US , where you have to be either Democrat or Republican because third parties are pretty much irrelevant . The US is pretty behind in comparison , or perhaps they ' re stable precisely because there ' s not much variation going on in their republican approach . This is why whenever someone tells me there ' s extreme left factions controlling the US agenda just because there ' s someone talking about gender wage gaps and gender neutral toilets I just laugh .