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[-] BellaDonna@mujico.org 13 points 7 months ago

I'm honestly, honestly convinced that the villification of centrism and liberalism on both leftist and right political ideology is designed to increase disagreement and prevent compromise on political issues, likely for people to focus on race or politics over class issues, or to prevent good faith discussion of issues to prevent social progress.

I know, without a doubt this will be voted down, but I'm actually asking you to think about this critically before both political extremes go down the authoritarian route and it becomes too late to actually unify people to rationale and true dialectics.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Both the Democrats and the Republicans are right wing, therefore “centrism” and “compromise” are necessarily also right wing. Bernie Sanders, in calling for welfare capitalism, is objectively a centrist, so centrism is as “extreme” as is allowed in the leftward direction.

both political extremes go down the authoritarian route

Firstly for all practical purposes there is no left in the US, “extreme” or otherwise, and secondly horseshoe theory is bullshit.

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