• JillyB@beehaw.org
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      “right”, “left”, and “center” are arbitrary points. They aren’t defined by Democrats, Republicans, or International politics. That’s why I prefer terms like “conservative”, “leftist”, “reactionary”, “fascist”, etc. Those are actual ideologies without arbitrary boundaries. Otherwise, you’re bound by the Overton window, which is always changing. The “centrist” Democrats are mostly conservative, unlike Republicans, who are mostly fascist.

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      That’s actually true in the US too by those not deluded, stupid, faithful or combination of all three. Problem is those people constitute 80-95% of the population because our education is purposefully shit tier

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        no they dont. most people are not centrists, and certainly not 80%. if that were true the establishment dem policy of pandering to them would result in overwhelming victory in every election. what we see in reality is them losing when they do that.

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          That’s not at all what I said, I said that most people in the US think the DNC is on the left, even though they objectively ain’t, I didn’t say anything about what most people considered themselves