In France we have a saying "Si t'es pas de gauche, t'es de droite" i.e "if you're not a leftist, then you're on the right wing" meaning that if you do not explicitly reject the paradigm supported by the right then you're implicitly accepting it and thus indirectly support right wing and conservatism.
Found the source:
Okay I read the source now and what I found funny is the part where people describe how "moderates" on dating apps are just conservatives. An observation I can regard as true in my experience, they are just self-aware enough to not be dismissed outright, but not self-aware enough to actually change a thing about themselves and become a better person.
Remembering how dating apps for conservative people tend to go down (only dudes, because what chick would engage with those guys...), I find it funny to see this echoed here again. There is, after all, no middle ground on most social issues anymore and we do good to see moderates as just another trick of conservative rebranding to obfuscate what they truly are.
Who the fuck cares? Biden isn't in office anymore. Judge by what he accomplished instead of pretending you all know him personally.
Right now we have a literal fascist in office. Something tells me that's a bigger issue. We can play the blame game all day, but unfortunately what's done is done and the time to take action is yesterday.
I think this also has to do with how "we" refuse to speak of left and right as actual sets of ideals as opposed to relative positions. As far as voters go they see themselves as centrist because they aren't far right fascists so they're to the "left" of them, but they don't agree with "the left" so they're to the "right" of them. Their actual beliefs though would make them conservatives and so right wingers...
As far as politicians, they just want to get elected and the Bidens of the world know they can't win as Republicans especially today.
Someone go get that guy complaining about 'bothsiders' on lw last week.
Leftists can pat themselves on the back for knowing this all they want... but the truth of the matter is that even leftists themselves have largely fallen for the propagandistic myth that liberalism is (somehow) "less" right-wing than it's fascist co-conspirators.
Just the introductory Wikipedia page on liberalism makes it perfectly clear that liberalism fetishises the very "ideals" that all but ensure the power and privilege of the already-wealthy at the expense of everyone and everything else (you know... the power and privilege that fascism exists to protect through the use of unbridled state violence) - yet I do not see leftists coming up with any bright ideas to fight liberalism in the same way that leftists oppose fascism.
The entire issue with “the middle ground” is that it’s based in relativistic politics which is a complete non-stater since their goal is specifically to not to commit enough to any action such that it actually succeeds. There’re no thoughts behind those eyes, just a weird and bad compromise because they don’t understand anything and are just barely good enough people to not go 100% into hating minorities.
What values are you talking about? You must have limited them to something like you shouldn't eat cockroaches.
