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Loving the parade of the usual suspects in here to tell us that politics ARE about simple issues, ARE easy to fix, and anyway bothsides.
this is not accurate
centrists trying to build a big tent for everyone are the pro rich and corporations that are voting against our interests
the "big tent" is just there to fool people with bread and circuses and it has nothing of sustenance that will sustain the people
the throwing your vote away and getting to pretend you hold some high ground (you don't) is propaganda spread by both parties to keep the power structure intact and to help control the masses by tamping their expectations of leaders
yes life is compromise and nobody gets exactly what they want, but everyone does not get a say in how we work to find a fair balance
some people are hidden away in concrete zoos without adequate ac/heat usually in unsanitary conditions or they just have their votes taken away all together or some other way of quashing votes
centrists are the right wing with sheep's clothing on designed to give the illusion of choice
the right wing billionaire class always wins and have succeeded at confusing most of the US public into a false dilemma and gets everything they want
voting Democrat or Republican means we give away the opportunity of a third party and the ability to listen to outside voices that may contain a forest of solutions that were unseeable due to the two trees
I still want to someday vote for better third parties, but that gets a lot less scary when we have FULLY AND UTTERLY ANNIHILATED the COMPLETELY USELESS Republican Party.
The sooner everyone realizes they never have their own useful ideas, the more we can choose between progressive policies without worrying about a wasted vote.
Simple issues like saving American democracy?
This is obviously oversimplified, but I agree with the message.
Okay, but what I don't get is:
Why would you not want to vote for the centrists?
If you're (rightfully) getting mad at the republicans for being egocentric and only looking out for themselves, you can't at the same time not be centrist and want to be egocentric and only look out for yourself
You'd just be a republican representing a different interest group
Neolib nonsense. People need to realize that voting for the lesser evil gets us evil every single time. There is only one solution, intifada revolution.