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          4 months ago

          We only have “centrists”. There’s no ‘left’ for them to work with. The democrats do everything they can to keep anyone remotely leftist from being elected within their party, and to maintain the political duopoly.

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            4 months ago

            This perspective really bugs me.

            The terms left and right are relative.

            It’s absolutely fine that the dems are not as far left as you would like, but they are still your left of center major party.

            The more elections they win, the more the whole spectrum moves to the left.

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              4 months ago

              That’s fine, but this comment thread is about centrists and the left working together to defeat the right. There is either no political left, or there is no political center. The democrats are already all united. It just isn’t really analogous to a parliamentary system.

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      Unfortunately our media are studiously not taking note.

      Prior to these results, a few weeks back, NPR was trying to make it seem like the far-right and the “far left” were working together. It was the most bizarre, disjointed reporting I’ve heard in a while. They want people here to believe the center/left is extreme and uncompromising.

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        Didn’t see the NPR article, but this absolutely rings true to me. I live in a blue city in a red state. We were littered by Green Party ads for the primaries that were funded by right wing groups. I wouldn’t say that the far left and far right are working together, but the right is for sure posing as leftist in local outlets and actively encouranging the left’s tendency to eat their own.

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          but the right is for sure posing as leftist in local outlets and actively encouranging the left’s tendency to eat their own.

          Of course they are, and they’ve been doing it for decades at this point all over the Internet. Anybody remember #walkaway? The movement founded by a ‘former liberal’ who ended up at J6 3 years later.

          It’s funny how often they barely try to hide their right wing roots