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why not the centre?
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In a sane country, centrism means you still support universal healthcare. Obviously not in the US and overtime less and less in other countries.
Centrism is a myth, it's right wing for people too afraid to call themselves as such. You can't sit in the middle of capitalism. You are either for or against it.
Let's look at French centrism, the proposed 2026 budget included funding cuts for healthcare. It was only after protest and having to negotiate with left parties that they saw an increase. If left to their own devices, centrists would eventually and slowly kill of healthcare through a million tiny cuts. Centrists don't support it, it's just bad optics for them to be visibly against it.
Hey now, I'm a centrist!
I'm just the center of the left. You know, where respect for humanity exists.
(i couldn't resist, sorry)
That's self-identified "Centrists" in the US who inhabit somewhere in the middle of the Overton window. Centrism in less relative terms is generally Liberals and they range from Center Left to Center Right.
But left and right isn't just capitalism vs not capitalism... There's a lot of other factors. But, there's also things like social capitalism and social democracy that keep most of capitalism, while including checks and balances to reduce the destruction of society. I'd expect most centrists to want something like that, even if they don't appreciate/understand the name.
I'm tired of playing nice with people who are okay with a system that outright kills people and needs them to die to be the lubricant in its gears.
This is a "don't look at what the right's doing!" kind of post.
Or maybe just pointing out that our "center" is far right.
All Center is either far right, right or tumbling to the right
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Then it's certainly muddling everything up and making the terms all confusing if that's the point.
This is looking at the right.
It appears this is a Centrists are Right Wingers in sheeps clothing post. The opposite of "don't look at what the right's doing".
And this is why the right will always win. You can never be left enough to not get into arguments with "real" leftists.
No, it's that you're not left if you're arguing for keeping capitalism. It's a very low bar to pass.
Leftists disagree with each other on basically every other aspect of how society should run, but not this one.
The bar that almost every Leftist expects you to pass is "exploiting people is wrong" which is an easy fucking purity test if you're not a sociopath.