But they're enabling the polarisation. Every step of the way. The left get purged, no policies taken on board, every time. The right? Their policies always get adopted by centrists. It's not the left causing polarisation by not working with the far right, it's centrists enabling the far right - ThreadSky

mrpostsgood.bsky.social • 28 days ago

But they're enabling the polarisation. Every step of the way. The left get purged, no policies taken on board, every time.

The right? Their policies always get adopted by centrists.

It's not the left causing polarisation by not working with the far right, it's centrists enabling the far right

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annakatherinec.bsky.social•28 days ago

Everyone can not like you saying this Rob, but our current political climate is due to exactly this, corporate centrists enabling the right to move further, further right for the sake of political to power trading the right NEVER reciprocated not once. D's coulda been stacking wins since the 80's.

inoculator-mel.bsky.social•28 days ago

Polarization can be enabled by ignorance, yes, but here, well-researched centrism is the opposite. Polarization is mostly enabled through things like acceleration and extremism. These can include finger pointing, absolute language, and close mindedness, which the OP is cautioning against

shelleybwoke.bsky.social•27 days ago

The right wants my community dead. They've taken concrete steps to do that on both sides of the Atlantic. In the U.S., we are now second-class barely citizens.

Please explain to me how I can bridge this "us vs. them" divide with your reasoned centrism?

aliceanne91.bsky.social•27 days ago

I think we are beyond the point of reason and being centerist now just means politically ignorant or oblivious. There’s no real middle ground anymore you either support the people who want us dead or you don’t. Centerism doesn’t logically work now because tolerance for intolerance is a paradox.

aliceanne91.bsky.social•27 days ago

Just like you can’t shame the shameless, you can’t reason with the unreasonable.

mrpostsgood.bsky.social•28 days ago

And yet "well-researched centrism" has directly enabled polarisation and the far right.

Maybe this "well-researched centrism" is actually a load of fucking shit

mrpostsgood.bsky.social•28 days ago

Especially when centrists going "hey now we need to hear these far right views out" never have that energy for leftist politics.

We get vitriol, we get purged, we get called uncooperative. And yet it's us not being listened to or worked with. Every time.

inoculator-mel.bsky.social•28 days ago

Every time? Like, every single instance of centrism across the globe? We get those things, yes; the right is gaining traction, yes. But the extent to which this is happening remains in progress. If it happened “every time”, neither of us would be able to have this conversation.

uncarvedblock.bsky.social•28 days ago

From Eli Wiesel to MLK in his Letter from Birminghsm Jail, the people most affected lament the harm that centrists do. This has ever been the case, meeting the far right halfway has not just never worked, it’s harmful. In our own recent history, trying to meet halfway gave us a radicalized SCOTUS.

mrpostsgood.bsky.social•28 days ago

Yes. Without fail. Centrists side with the far right over progressives. Every time. Historically.

mrpostsgood.bsky.social•28 days ago

Until the right are, uh, resolved as a problem, then they "always disagreed with them"

inoculator-mel.bsky.social•28 days ago

Can you demonstrate that? Like, if a young reader who’s just shown up never having heard of the term “centrist” wanted to verify your claim, can you provide reliable, verified sources for them that could support your claims?

historysraven.bsky.social•28 days ago

If your tent includes bigots, you’re pushing out marginalized communities and not actually helping anyone. The OP here is a dipshit who cares more about the feelings of bigots than marginalized communities.

starscape15.bsky.social•28 days ago

Centrists enable polarization because instead of telling the ignorant people on the right to take a hike, they instead create copious amounts of literature saying "maybe we should listen to them" or "maybe these ignorant views actually have merit." That increases polarization by muddying the waters.

nonsequitrd.bsky.social•28 days ago

all the worst democrats continue to say "we need a strong republican party." well, they have it. this is the plan. let the people fall to fascism
so they can keep eating at bobby van's and the capital grille and keep their lavish lifestyles afloat

samantha42.bsky.social•28 days ago

I think at some point we just have to accept that there is no distinction between centrists and the far right... it's just closeted and open fascists.

sloanefragment.bsky.social•28 days ago

mmhmm.

https://bsky.app/profile/sloanefragment.bsky.social/post/3lhvmsph7tc2x

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