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Yes those are literally the superficial pet issues that I alluded to. Usonian "leftists" don't really want a shift in the ownership of the means of production, they just want "living" wages enforced by state and "free" healthcare where the state foots the hyper inflated bill that the pharmaceutical companies create. This is "kinda" left leaning, in the sense that it is not actually left leaning at all, just less to the right than, say, chattel slavery. This is not a change to the system, it's alleviating social tensions to guarantee it's continued perpetration.
In terms of actual ideals that have everything to do with fascism: the Usonian "leftist" believes just as much in police, the rule of law, the existence of prisons and capital punishment, the inherent value of "beauty" and "normalcy", in deeply puritan moral values to define said concepts... as much as any proud boy member, maybe even more at times. They just disagree on who or when the boot gets dropped on; they may say they don't want the police, what they really mean is either they want a police that's divided into different sub-domains of the current labors of police, or they want a "woke" lynch mob to kill anyone their teletubbie panopticon deems unpleasant enough, just don't call it police.
Also yes, a lot of characteristics of capitalism -that these leftists don't criticize- are either conductive to or dependent on fascist policies. And that includes your central European governments. Just because your compass is less skewed than that of the Usonians doesn't mean it's not skewed at all, or that objective truth lies in the middle.
"leftist" is a word that doesn't mean anything anymore (if ever). People who say they are leftists don't really believe in anything with certainty. They just use the term as an abstraction that makes them feel smart.