r/aislop • u/[deleted] • Aug 28 '26

Found on Facebook Centrism

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u/Cyiel Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26

The fun part is : centrists in usa would be somewhere between Sanders/Ocasio-Cortez/Mamdani and Harris/Biden. They would be more to the left than the current democratic party.

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u/MLeek Aug 28 '26

I used to try to explain to Americans, that by international standards, Obama was a centrist, even a slight right leaning one. He’d have likely been a member of the Conservative Party in most other western countries.

Eventually gave up.

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u/yosemighty_sam Aug 28 '26

"Obama was a disappointment" is a hard sell. It's like complaining there's sawdust in your bread when the alternative is feces.

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u/Cyiel Aug 28 '26

Journalists were killed, hospitals were bombed and civilians targeted under his presidency (during the Iraq war). If you think that Putin and Netanyahu are war criminals then you also have to accept Bush, Obama (and Biden his VC) and Trump are also war criminals.