Not only US politics. Romania is about to vote for a right wing extremist as their president, Germany is going to vote for a right wing, extremist party in February, France gave right wing extremists 30% of parliament, Spain voted for a right winger too, Hungary has had Victor Orban for years, and so on. All the while progressive and left leaning people either don’t vote, strategically vote for a center right party, or vote for some unknown, unimportant, backwater party that has no chance of doing anything in parliament.
Centrist is the funniest political term ever. Most self-proclaimed centrists are actually further right than most self-proclaimed right-wing people, far less supportive of democracy, AND are also the least informed about political matters than either right-wing people or left-wing people. All of this has been verified by multiple studies, too.
“Judean People’s Front!? We’re the People’s Front of Judea! And if there’s one thing we hate worse than the Romans, it’s the bleeding Judean People’s Front!”
The downvotes are proof of this. Why have a platform that improves the lives of everywhere, when you can act smug and support horrid policies that fascists love?
Not only US politics. Romania is about to vote for a right wing extremist as their president, Germany is going to vote for a right wing, extremist party in February, France gave right wing extremists 30% of parliament, Spain voted for a right winger too, Hungary has had Victor Orban for years, and so on. All the while progressive and left leaning people either don’t vote, strategically vote for a center right party, or vote for some unknown, unimportant, backwater party that has no chance of doing anything in parliament.
This is not new though, Orwell pointed out in 1939 that demcroacies inevitability turn Fascist when times get harder.
Climate change will see that get even worse still.
As Yeats famously wrote:
Seems it’s happening again.
The problem is that centrists consistently align themselves with the far right in order to screw over the leftists.
Centrist is the funniest political term ever. Most self-proclaimed centrists are actually further right than most self-proclaimed right-wing people, far less supportive of democracy, AND are also the least informed about political matters than either right-wing people or left-wing people. All of this has been verified by multiple studies, too.
And leftists can’t unite because they spend their time arguing about whose motives are more pure.
“Judean People’s Front!? We’re the People’s Front of Judea! And if there’s one thing we hate worse than the Romans, it’s the bleeding Judean People’s Front!”
Leftists are busy screwing over other leftists because they’re not good enough.
MAGAs are dumb but ‘both sides same so I’m not going to vote’ leftists might as well be braindead.
Centrists like to call themselves “other leftists” while supporting genocide and cozying up to the Cheneys.
There it is.
What they call “purity testing” we call “Don’t support state-backed murder.”
Centrists wish they had morals.
Centrists denigrate people who have standards because they have none.
The downvotes are proof of this. Why have a platform that improves the lives of everywhere, when you can act smug and support horrid policies that fascists love?