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Centrist bullshit (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Isn't the midwest just saturated MAGA, white Christian nationalist and plain ol' white supremacist? People who vote for centrists but not progressives have long since devoted their lives to the Trump god-king. They don't care about anyone other than themselves, and may turn around because they're personally hurt by the economy. But in that case, they're voting against the incumbent, and don't care who the opposition is, even if it's a proverbial sack of potatoes.

At this point Trump is personally responsible for everyone losing money. At least everyone but the handful of guys getting pardons and government contracts out of him.

Harris lost by playing to the center, and an awful lot of polls are telling us that progressive platform ideas are popular.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    If you think centrists are fans of trump I don't know what to tell you except that's so far off I can't believe it's a thought.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Centrists voted for Trump in 2024, thinking egg prices would go down. (Or just terrified of immigrants and trans folks.)

    I have little confidence in centrists. (Or what counts as centrist in the United States.)

    But I do know that a lot of the progressive platform is popular:
    ~ Universal healthcare
    ~ A jobs guarantee
    ~ Higher education for all
    ~ National action on the climate crisis
    ~ Women's reproductive healthcare access (including abortion)
    ~ Housing as a human right ~ Abolishing ICE and police reform
    ...and so on

    All that isn't centrist according to the Overton window. In fact, the far-right propaganda machine is asserting any one of those is a slippery slope to communism. So the majority of Americans who take polls are communist.

    I think that running on an actual platform is a winning move. Doubly so if candidates present a blueprint on how to implement it.

    I also think that none of this is enough. We're going to have to address the democracy crisis and capture of the federal court system. Ultimately, according to Nobel laureate economists, we're going to have to redistribute the immense wealth at the top. (That may be impossible, and if so, the entire industrial world may be doomed to capture and decline.)

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