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Why does left wing advocates hate centrists?
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There is no political center between the current left and right parties in the United States. For example, one is pro-choice the other is pro-life. There is no middle on that issue. This is the post-truth world and we are now in different realities. You can't believe half of the Q stuff and then believe half of the Bernie stuff. If you don't follow politics enough to have an opinion you wouldn't call yourself a centerist.
Describing yourself as a "centerist" in today's conditions usually means you support Trump but are too embarrassed to say it out loud/you know you'll receive backlash for saying it.
But you could take ideas from both sides.
For example: Support abortion rights but be againest Universal Basic Income.
You get my idea, you could pick and choose till you get the centrist view.
Also about news bias, it should be the default to be least biased in my opinion. The news should be boring and should just tell you what happened without telling you how you should feel about it.
I wouldn't call that centerist because you're not claiming to be in the middle on any issues. Too many of these "ideas from both sides" are at complete contradiction to each other. One of the parties is overtly racist and says diversity is bad. Being a racist pro-choicer doesn't make you a centerist.
Yeah would be great. That sort of reporting died a long time ago.
And that's mainstream tho...
Like, that's what the Dem party is doing....
Republican party is as "conservative" as it's most extreme voters, Dem party is as "centrist" as it's most conservative voters.
You don't half ass fighting fascism, which is why people on the actual.left do t like the people who want half ass the fight against fascism
You are not arguing against my comment or supporting it, which make me ask the following question: what is the relvance of the info you put here to the discussion?
What are you arguing for here?
The people who would be "centrist" in other civilized countries are called left wing extremists, even by their own party...
Do you not understand why those people would then not be happy with the most viable "left" option in American politics and not be upset with the "centrists" who would be called conservative in other societies?
It's incredible basic, but your question was so basic the answer obviously was going to be too.
You understand what a centrist is, however the meta perception in online America is that a centrist is a right-winger in disguise.
News has determined decades ago that they get more attention by being entertaining. Dry factual news and clearly delineated opinion pieces don't get the views/clicks, and by extension money, so it is unsustainable. It still exists, but it isn't prevalent.
Nothing the right stands for or wants brings any real value. Why should I respect anyone picking stuff from that side?
Individuals should have full autonomy over their bodies, including to abort. However, the practice itself is a very sad decision for individuals to make and should be discouraged where possible.
Maybe that's just slightly left of center
Nobody is eager to have an abortion. Jesus fucking Christ. There sheer ignorance of the right in that regard.
That's just normal left.