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Don't let them forget that moderate now means "I support Luigi shooting CEOs in the street".
Their conception of a "moderate" is a caricature they invent solely for the purposes of the political outcomes they want. It is a mirage.
Spot on.
It's the couple conjured up by the hernia in Schumer's brain caused by forty years of mental gymnastics.
Medicare for all. Shooting CEOs. Protecting social security. All bi-partisan moderate opinions.
___We have to fight this caricature. It's a puppet by which everyone measures themselves against.
In fighting game design you have an archetypal character that is used to deem the "middle" balance, this character is the character that undergoes very little change throughout the future of the game and all other characters are instead balanced around them. In Smash Bros it's Mario. In Street Fighter it's Ryu. Etc etc.
If you smash this archetypal character the liberals have created, this mirage that does not exist, then the field of ideology opens up completely.
The far right did their whole "What is a woman?" shtick when attacking trans people partially because they had already successfully used it in reinventing "centrism" as a caricature they slotted themselves into in order to lurch political views rightwards. We should be arguing about what a moderate really is and whether it even exists, and what views are genuinely popular that these people leave out of their mirages, the "centrist" that the right wing uses or the "moderate" that the liberal uses are diversions from what is real.
Creating consciousness of what is real and that these caricatures are not will create real class consciousness. They are idols that false consciousness is constructed around.