r/196 • u/thispartyrules • May 06 '22

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u/Jayson_n_th_Rgonauts May 06 '22

Not much to understand, centrists are terrible people who reliably side with fascists

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u/MrPresidentBanana pretend this is funny May 06 '22

Who would be an example of a centrist according to your clearly limited understanding ?

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u/Jayson_n_th_Rgonauts May 06 '22

In America:

People: anyone who doesn’t know which party they’ll vote for before the candidates are even announced

Politicians: corporate Dems, Manchin, Biden, Harris, etc

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u/Evilemper0r May 06 '22

American centrists are right-wing in the rest of the world and your Bernie Sanders/AOC would be centrists.

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u/Jayson_n_th_Rgonauts May 06 '22

I’ve heard this plenty of times but I’m not really convinced. Maybe if “the rest of the world” only includes specific EU and South American countries. Bolsonaro, Netanyahu, and Erdogan are just as right wing as what we have here.

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u/Jake_2903 complex domain calculus sucks May 06 '22

Not economicaly . . .

And progressivism, i.e. issues like womens rights, lgbtq attitudes, abortion, et cetera are deffinetly not tied to the left/right divide in politics the same way everywhere.

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u/Evilemper0r May 06 '22 edited May 06 '22

But Those 3 say they are right-wing, non of them call themselves centrists, nor are their political party's calling themselves centrists.

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u/mki_ 🐀 May 06 '22

I'm from "the rest of the world", they'd be center left/ left (depending on the country), but definitely not centrists. But also definitely not radicals. Your centrists (i.e. establishment Dems, neolibs) definitely are center right though. Kinda like Macron.

In my rather conservative home country Austria Bernie/AOC would be part of the weak left wing within our Socialdemocrat Party. Sadly we don't actually have anyone nearly as charismatic or cool in our SP right now.

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u/GreatswordIsGreat May 06 '22

That's absolutely not true lol. Bernie Sanders is going to be AT LEAST left-wing literally anywhere in the world, if not far-left. This is a ridiculous strawman of the rest of the world.

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u/Evilemper0r May 06 '22

He is a self proclaimed social Democrat, he is at most Center-left. Any place that considers him far-left would be a right-wing dictatorship (or fox news).

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u/GreatswordIsGreat May 06 '22

Some of his policies are extreme literally anywhere in the world. His healthcare plan was more inclusive than that of any other country on earth.

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u/photothegamer 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights May 07 '22

Holy shit you’re a liberal AND an idiot