Centrists hold the door open to the Far Right, we've seen it in America, we've seen it in Romania (there's no left wing alternative, hence the baddie is winning) and we've seen it throughout History.
Your typical Centrist resents The Other as much as the Far Right do, but they want to appear respectable and think that bending the knee to Fascism like Keir Starmer does, is 'pragmatism'
Ask them why the Far Right are ascendant and they'll blame the Left.
Funny how Centrists just sound like posh bigots who hate Foreginers, isn't it?
"Oh no, I'm not like those thugs outside asylum seeker hotels......but I do hope they win"
Also, this is another reason not to be on Bluesky....Centrists feel at home there.
#IslandOfStrangers #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Centrism #FarRight #Starmer #KeirStarmer #MoreInCommon
"Since the Seventies, America’s deficits have provided East Asia (first Japan, then China) and Europe (primarily Germany) the demand for their factories’ manufactures. In return, the European Union, Japan and later China sent their accumulated profits to Wall Street to be recycled into US private and public debt, some equities, and real estate. A Chinese official once described this mechanism to me as a “dark deal”. “Our Dark Deal with the Americans,” the official explained, “turns on the US trade deficit, which keeps demand for our manufactures high. In return, our capitalists invest the bulk of their dollar superprofits into America’s FIRE”. (The acronym stands for “Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate.”) “Once this process got underway, America shifted much of its industrial production to our shores.”
The problem with this global recycling mechanism was that, to function smoothly, it had to generate larger and larger imbalances: greater trade deficits for the US and more accumulated savings for Northern Europe and East Asia. But there are limits to how large imbalances can grow. Ruptures are inevitable. The longer they are delayed, the greater the pain they inflict — a truth that centrists never acknowledged, not even when it was tearing down their houses.
Trump’s greatest strength comes from asking the pressing question that the centrists refuse to countenance: what comes after the Dark Deal? What comes after the imbalances built on the US trade deficit have proven unsustainably massive? Scott Bessent, Trump’s Treasury Secretary, put it succinctly in a recent speech at the IMF: “Everywhere we look across the international economic system today, we see imbalance… This status quo of large and persistent imbalances is not sustainable… The persistent over-reliance on the United States for demand is resulting in an evermore unbalanced global economy.”"
https://unherd.com/2025/05/the-centrist-comeback-wont-last/
#Centrism #Liberalism #USA #Trump #FreeTrade #PoliticalEconomy #TradeDeficit #PublicDebt
"The essence of this global mechanism.. is simple. Since the Seventies, America’s deficits have provided East Asia (first Japan, then China) & Europe (primarily Germany) the demand for their factories’ manufactures. In return, the European Union, Japan & later China sent their accumulated profits to Wall Street to be recycled into US private & public debt, some equities & real estate"
Yanis Varoufakis on the demise of the 'Dark Deal'.
Oh did we silence the Left and then Voters felt they had no option but to Protest Vote against the status quo?
Such a 'Black Swan' event, nobody could have foreseen it..../s
#ProtestVote #Centrism #FarRight #Fascism #Politics #Romania
Elissa Slotkin is dead wrong: #Dems should NOT be distancing themselves from "wokeness" (whatever that is) to appease & gain RW votes. That'd mean abandonment of core principles. Historically appeasement never works. This Truman quote was often cited in the wake of 2001 specifically identifying a prime source of #Dems' defeat at the polls as their shift right to embrace #centrism.
Centrism has never worked. All it does is water down values, make it harder for #voters to distinguish &
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Why I don't discuss politics with friends
https://shwin.co/blog/why-i-dont-discuss-politics-with-friends
#politics #friendship #philosophy #attitudes #communication #psychology #centrism
"Centrism ... is to plant oneself firmly between what is assumed to be the standard left and standard right. Should one party propose to strip immigrants of all rights, and the other to strip them of only some rights, the intellectually rigorous thing to do is stripping immigrants of most rights. To compromise."
Omar El Akkad, "One Day Everyone Will have Always Been Against This"
#liberals #centrists #immigration #fascism #centrism #NoOneIsIllegal #HumanRights
@jrw @flexghost it's not just shitty American politicians who do this, Kier Starmer is master at 'keeping his powder dry' and doing fuck all.
Useless Centrist politicians holding the door open for Fascism, "out of civility"
@FlipboardUK @news-uk-edition-FlipboardUK that'll be more Austerity then, because she's not going to tax the rich.
#RachelReeves #UKPOL #Ukpolitics #TaxTheRich #Austerity #Poverty #Centrism
Centrist Parties are failing around the World, they cannot deal with things as they are now, they are nothing but doormen for Fascism.
@Piousunyn they are one and the same, which is ironic considering Starmer didn't visit Harris before the election, he visited Trump.
Labour will lose the next election for the same reasons the Dems lost the last one, they moved to the right and lost their core vote, despite pointing out how bad the other team were.
It's pathetic, it's centrism.
@Geoffberner
In my lifetime, #Centrism seems to mean “Getting the rich to share their money with us” which limits their policy options
Centrism has failed, people want real options, not a Rich People's world.
But Centrism would rather Fascism take over than the Poor go without exploitation.
Reassuring the rhetoric isn't "The people have given us a message and we are to work with the Fascists" like it would be in an English speaking nation.
Still though, Centrists fail before Fascism, this is only buying time.
'"any political stance which doesn’t make economic reform a central plank just can’t be described as left. It is a liberal position, deriving not from Marx or the Chartists or the trade union movement but from 1960s narcissistic hippy counterculture."
robinmcalpine.org/bundling-and-the-path-to
#centrism #left #socialism #economics
Maybe appealing to bigots at the expense of everyone else is a waste of time? Oh look, you lost!
Still doing it though, aren't you Dems?
Still putting off millions of voters by chasing votes you'll never get, aren't you?
It's what Centrists do, they fail.
Labour pivots more to the Right, and loses votes, and ReformUK gains, so Labour pivots more to the Right, and loses votes...
But they know better than all us disgusting progressives and leftists, who despise fascism and Trump.
Fuck us, our votes don't matter and nor do we.
