You can’t abstract things to a simple continuum, centrist policies and centrist politicians are wildly unpopular with the US public (a.k.a. the DNC and most democrats) whereas someone like Bernie or AOC frequently gets disengaged or more centrist people to say “huh, well yeah actually they are right about that”.
If you look at the polling universal healthcare is very popular, leftist policies often have majority support in US when polled.
The catastrophic danger comes from thinking being more centrist is a winning strategy, the right abandoned that strategy years ago and they have been unstoppable since.
I am telling you, USians of all political stripes are mad and want to burn everything down, trying to reach people with centrism right now is batshit crazy. Reach people with honest, straightforward leftist talking points, emphasize that collective benefits and community focus, emphasize that leftists are actually serious about inclusion and equity unlike centrists.
Most importantly emphasize you are a leftist because if you try to reach someone as a centrist no matter what you say they aren’t going to trust you will fight to protect others when the time comes OR the values you claim to believe in, because I mean turn on the news, why would they believe you?
People want the status quo to be smashed, don’t sell your ideas as the status quo.
Yes, through labor struggle and organizing. I’m not convinced there are going to be elections for much longer, which means we need to organize outside of the ballot box.
Do you see a path to move the US to the left that doesn’t involve first shifting the overton window leftwards through the democrats?
You can’t abstract things to a simple continuum, centrist policies and centrist politicians are wildly unpopular with the US public (a.k.a. the DNC and most democrats) whereas someone like Bernie or AOC frequently gets disengaged or more centrist people to say “huh, well yeah actually they are right about that”.
If you look at the polling universal healthcare is very popular, leftist policies often have majority support in US when polled.
The catastrophic danger comes from thinking being more centrist is a winning strategy, the right abandoned that strategy years ago and they have been unstoppable since.
I am telling you, USians of all political stripes are mad and want to burn everything down, trying to reach people with centrism right now is batshit crazy. Reach people with honest, straightforward leftist talking points, emphasize that collective benefits and community focus, emphasize that leftists are actually serious about inclusion and equity unlike centrists.
Most importantly emphasize you are a leftist because if you try to reach someone as a centrist no matter what you say they aren’t going to trust you will fight to protect others when the time comes OR the values you claim to believe in, because I mean turn on the news, why would they believe you?
People want the status quo to be smashed, don’t sell your ideas as the status quo.
Yes, through labor struggle and organizing. I’m not convinced there are going to be elections for much longer, which means we need to organize outside of the ballot box.