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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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    11 days ago

    Any radical can tell me that the political center doesn’t exist, but that doesn’t really change the fact that the loss of the political center is why we’re in for another four years of Trump

    What do you call the 11 million people who voted for Biden in 2020, and didn’t vote this year?

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      11 days ago

      What do you call the 11 million people who voted for Biden in 2020, and didn’t vote this year?

      People who got fed up with the (so-called) “centrists” that spent the last four years doing absolutely squat to fix the whole “fascist-zombie-horde-scratching-at-the-gates” thing, perhaps?

      You don’t oppose right-wingers with “centrism.” Unless you want to hand the right-wingers a milk-run victory, of course.

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        11 days ago

        You are awfully certain about this. I know the centrist approach did not work this year, but I am skeptical that a radical left approach would have won. The election math is just that there are too few of you radicals to win any elections at the moment.

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          11 days ago

          You are awfully certain about this.

          They don’t allow radical politics into the formal political establishment because radical politics threaten to dismantle the formal political establishment. So, no. Radical leftists do not win (or even play) electoral politics.

          That’s not what we are talking about at all here. If it’s merely winning elections you want you don’t even need radical leftism. All you need is a Democratic party that’s actually hostile to fascism. You don’t have that and you’re not getting it, either.