It beats me why anyone in #Labour is paying for their #PR! I am frequently critical of the #maladministration, but recognise they have made some progress - a limp defence of the employment rights bill is simply not good enough - it just promotes the rightward shift go the #OvertonWindow with a generally hostile press in the UK. Frequently the only cold blooded assessment of what they are getting right happens in the #FinancialTimes on its ownyo.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2025/jun/26/uk-businesses-tax-rises-keir-starmer-rachel-reeves-shell-bp-no-bid-business-live

#UkPol #EmploymentRights

@grumble209 @erininthemorning.com Quite so. Democrats will never get conservatives to vote for them by moving more to the right than they already are. #OvertonWindow

The Overton Window & the TDG

With democracies in turmoil, it seems logical for thinkers to investigate a new democracy.

Alas, this is not so.

There seems to an "overton" that must be managed.

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=28&id=395

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#overtonwindow

"Someone sold the thought that Western media, which specifically have to align their interests with their audience, won't be able to ignore saturated" - #VasilyGatov Year 2014

#FWakeOvertonWindow #OvertonWindow
#ExecutiveFunctionManipulation #MindFuckingOpera
#MassMindManipulation #FWakeBrainExploit #CapitalismExploit ++

"In the 2020s the only #Populism we're seeing is in support of bad ideas but we know there's a solid global majority that wants #ClimateAction & to #TaxTheRich. So where's our #ProgressivePopulism that can shift that #OvertonWindow back? It kind of writes itself & I'm sick of losing. Are you?"

https://www.podcastics.com/episode/362096/link/

#yyc #yyccc #ClimateAction #ClimateRealityCanada #NationalClimateLeague #BuildingRetrofits #Climate

"In the 2020s the only #Populism we're seeing is in support of bad ideas but we know there's a solid global majority that wants #ClimateAction & to #TaxTheRich. So where's our #ProgressivePopulism that can shift that #OvertonWindow back? It kind of writes itself & I'm sick of losing. Are you?"

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2jfr7qhenekca6f6qtjgwdr4/post/3lpoopnwahk2x

Browsing in the "other place" I have seen claims that Reform is the new Conservative party because the Conservatives are now 'woke'.

They've got it completely wrong. There is a new Conservative party, and it's headed by Keir Starmer. His policies are pretty much in line with what you'd have expected from traditional Conservatives, right up to David Cameron and Theresa May.

Meanwhile the current Conservative party has moved further right into populism and neo-liberal economics. Reform are outright fascist, combined with greed and kleptocracy where they openly say they will replace the NHS with insurance.

#UkPolitics #OvertonWindow #Labour #UK #RefUK #Conservative

Now that the #OvertonWindow has been smashed into tiny pieces, can we please retire the #phrase “Overton Window.”

@inthehands in Europe, "liberal" tends to mean "centre-right" – which is approximately what you mean by "left" in the US, since the #OvertonWindow of the US is so far to the right of that of Europe.

"Centre-left parties have followed the male gaze into chasing an outdated interpretation of the “working-class” voter (narrowly defined as white men with rightwing sociocultural views). This electoral strategy pushes politics further to the right."

#UKPol #Labour #OvertonWindow

Lorsque Pascal #Praud proposait à Gérald #Darmanin en janvier 2025 de "rouvrir les bagnes", celui-ci répondait (et a juste titre) choqué " Ben... Non!".
En l'espace de 4 mois seulement la fenêtre d' #Overton a été explosée grâce entre autre a Laurent Wauquiez, qui proposait d'envoyer les personnes sous #OQTF à St Pierre et Miquelon et celui-ci vient juste de proposer la création du' bagne qui ne dit pas son nom en Guyane.
#fenêtredoverton #PascalPraud #GeraldDarmanin #prison #overtonwindow

In the 2020s the only #Populism we're seeing is in support of bad ideas but we know there's a solid global majority that wants #ClimateAction & to #TaxTheRich. So where's our #ProgressivePopulism that can shift that #OvertonWindow back? It kind of writes itself & I'm sick of losing. Are you? /end

a man in a suit is standing in...

@jubei This is the #OvertonWindow personified, in a chart

Climate change and the Overton Window

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-05-04/climate-change-and-the-overton-window/

“Trying to appease the right is a fool's errand”

I wanted to dwell on this point for a moment. A lot of ink has been spilled by so-called #political pundits penning opinion pieces in which they claim that #KamalaHarris and the #Democrats lost the #PresidentialElection because the #DemocraticParty has become too “woke”, which (so they claim) alienated enough of the voting population to throw the #election to #Trump.

I completely disagree with this diagnosis of why the Democratic Party lost the Presidency. Let’s face it: the Democrats lost the Presidency because Kamala Harris was an uninspiring, milquetoast candidate with an uninspiring, milquetoast vision for the future—just like #Biden before her. Her #policy proposals were nothing short of stale attempts to eat around the edges of issues that are systemic to American #capitalism. Like, what was up with that “Economy of Opportunities” crap? I think when I heard her explain her “Opportunity Economy” proposal, I must have yawned and said “So basically she’s got nothing?”

#WorkingClass Americans need a sharp break from the trajectory this country has been on for decades. I would argue that that sharp break needs to come in the form of rapidly moving away from capitalism and towards #Socialism. Kamala Harris was not a “sharp break” candidate. She was a business as usual candidate.

#DonaldTrump was right about one thing: this country IS stagnating (and even entering the “fall” half of “rise and fall”). American capitalism is in crisis. And it is precisely when capitalism is in crisis that #fascism is able to break through and go mainstream (as we are witnessing in real time). American voters broke for Trump because they instinctively knew that we are on the decline and need a major shakeup. Trump was the only candidate promising just that. Of course, everybody who *wasn’t* won over by his #sophistry knows that he doesn’t have any real solutions and will only serve to accelerate the decline.

I want to go back and underscore that “trying to appease the right is a fool's errand”. If the Democrats go down the path of “moving closer to the center” in the hopes of poaching some of the #GOP’s voters, then the #RepublicanParty will just move even further to the right so as to differentiate themselves from the Democrats.

Congrats, #Dems! You shifted Party politics to the right, chasing “moderate voters”, the #Republicans moved farther to the right in response, and the result is that #USpolitics as a whole has shifted rightward. The #OvertonWindow has been moved and ideas once considered outlandish and extreme start being normalized. And the U.S. gets more fascistic.

On the relationship between capitalism and fascism:

https://isreview.org/issue/107/clara-zetkin-and-struggle-against-fascism/index.html

#FWakeShows
#FWakeMediaEnvironment
#MediaEcologyWakingUp #FWakeSkinColor #OrangeSkinColor /\
#FWakeIndia /\ #FWakeOvertonWindow #BabelTowerARG #PInkFloydAPI
#FWakePinkFloydAPI
#RFP8
https://old.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/1kdy2uv/as_an_indian_this_is_so_true/

#OvertonWindow #AudienceOvertonWindow ++

The Overton Window & the TDG

Why this new democracy cannot move forward---yet.

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=28&id=395

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#overtonwindow

Is a New Democracy Possible?

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=33&id=491

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#overtonwindow

I just posted this as a response, but I want to repeat it here:

If you are hard/extreme/fringe left, you don't get a seat at the table until the entire system is dragged back to center-left. You are so far outside the #overtonwindow you're not even visible. When the center-left controls the system, then you have leverage. (Hint: see "extreme right primary threats")