Why do I have to choose between the radical left and the radical right?

What if I’m a male xenophobic racist who wants women to exist as sex toys to men and have no rights of their own and supports killing random civilians and children in other countries, especially when it grows in to genocide, but also wants a good life for the common male workers of the country, universal healthcare, and a sustainable climate?

I want that universal health care and education, I want more affordable homes and such, but I also want to see goon squads in the street beating brown people with batons as often as possible because it makes me laugh. Why can't I have both?

If you stop thinking about sides as whole and start thinking about singular choices, it becomes easy to understand where do centrists come from.

I like tradition. I don't think it should be untouchable, but I think it should be preserved and continued overall. I dislike globalism, valuing feeling of community with people from my country. I hate the idea of bending backwards just to fully accomodate whims of other people, even if these pertain to their feeling of self.

On the other hand, I hate the idea of functionally sorting people based on their skin, using traditions to shame and attack others, or deeming others as worse just because what they feel themselves be is different than what we perceive.

I hate censorship from both sides, portrayal of the other side as dumb and themselves as better and tendency for "group-thing" for humanity as a whole.

So yeah, i deem myself centrist. But if you ask me to join the side fighting fascists, nazis or communists (in the USSR sense of the word), I'm with ya. In the end I need to choose what fits most of my views, and in USA case, that's mostly left. In my own country it's a bit more muddied.

I don't think you have a left in the US. You have far right and center right. In Germany it's like you had only AfD and CDU and that's it.

I mean it's still obvious which choice is better but none of them is left.

Post link: https://www.threads.com/@alisonrosen/post/DbtbUqDDwpj/stop-making-me-choose-between-the-radical-left-and-the-radical-right

btw, does anyone have something to see threads posts without gettin on threads website?

Is that really Alison rosen now? Or was she joking herself? Stupid screenshot culture and no link....

Centrist: a right winger that doesn’t want to face the realities of either situation.

center is bullshit. You're the center for your view

I always considered myself a centrist. Of course, over the last 15 years the one side has become so damn batshit crazy it looks like I'm a party line voter simply based on my voting record.

STOP MAKING ME CHOOSE

says Threads account run by a DC corporate think tank.

the us democrats are not the radical left, but the radical left had policies that enough people would disagree on that they would lose if they tried to run (wealth tax)

We need some police. Just some.