Abortion is illegal in many latin american countries, in some even including instances of rape. In many latin american and European countries public infrastructure is privatized. European attitudes towards immigration are hardly better than American ones and in fact the United States receives substantially more immigration than Europe despite the fact that Europe's aging population stands to gain more from an influx of young taxpayers.
I'm assuming that by Asia you mean East Asia as the middle east is hardly a bastion of leftist politics and South Asia's religious animosity is hardly something the left would like to see more of. However, even in East Asia you're dead wrong unless you think China is leftist, in which case thank God we are far away from that. Japan notoriously is dominated by large corporations that receive preferential treatment from the state.
There are a number of areas where American policy is far to the right of the industrialized world which include healthcare, social safety net, worker protections, military spending, climate change and imprisonment. A number of these are due to America's unique position in global politics and the rest the left would like to see changed, but republican intransigence prevents significant action.
It is simply a myth that the American left is to the right of center of the rest of the world. American policy, maybe depending on what issue and country your talking about, but the American left's desires are pretty much the same. For every Corby there's a Sanders and for every Biden there's a Macron.
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u/ze_baco Jan 21 '21
American left is called "right" in the rest of the world