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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Only somebody ignorant of the political culture outside the US would call the middle-point between Democrats and Republicans "centrism".

By global standards, that shit would be "Full-on Right", specifically on Economics were it's Hard Neoliberalism (privatise everything including natural monopolies and refrain from regulating anything, to the point that, to pick quite a poignant example, the way in which the US regulates the safety of new chemicals for environments with direct human exposure - such as home use - is "allow by default until proven dangerous", which is the exact opposite of what's done in Europe were that stuff has to be proven safe first and only after that it's allowed).

Just because your further to the Right party could be best described as "Ultra-nationalist, ultra-religious, full-on racist, ultra-neoliberal, complete total nutcase Far-Right" doesn't mean that the party not quite as much to the Right is left-of-center, especial on economic (and hence, quality of life) matters.

The number of elected Democrats that are left-of-center can probably be counted using the fingers of a hand.

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[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Centrism is a relative position, and the topic is United States politics.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In which case you made a quite the ill-informed assumption in your previous post in thinking that my criticism came from having a political position that was between those parties - a place were I even explicitly had said there was a lot less room than some seem to think there is - rather than one which is to the left of both were there is way more political room for people to be in, at least if one's political vision isn't limited by the very peculiar political blinkers pushed in the American political and media culture to make people think that what you have in the US is the full scope of politics.

That American Centrism you accused me of being part of is much more to the right than almost anything but the Far Right in Europe were even mainstream Right parties are generally to the left of the US Democracts.

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