How was it? The right says "we want to do genocide", the left says "no, we don't want any genocide". So the right responded "ok, so let's just do a little genocide", and the left responded "no, we don't want any genocide". And the centrist said to the left "see, You are the extremists, you don't want to meet in the middle".
We should not allow conservatives to get away with calling themselves centrist. "Centrists" are just conservatives who realize conservatives are definitely the bad guys.
I'm pretty sure centrists think we're bad because we want to abolish private ownership of the means of production, unless "leftism" means something else where OP is from.
The political center wants to maintain the status quo with regard to private property.
My brother called me the other day, and after explaining how nature isn't "take or be taken from" when there's enough to go around. We got more into the myths about humans we're taught, and eventually he asked how I identify politically, and about the difference between a leftist and a liberal
I told him liberals want the system to work, to be fair. Leftists look around and say "there's so much food we leave a third of it to rot, why the fuck are people starving? What the fuck are we doing? No one is happy with the world we've created, why are we doing it? Why don't we start with the assumption that everyone gets to live, and figure out the details from there?"
I’m a centrist. I live in Canada. We have public health care here. Even right wingers here like it. People who are against public health care aren’t ideological, they’re in the pockets of private insurance.
There is also a point for the left not wanting to alienate all their voters so they are wanting to start slow. Personally I see this as a progress point for how left a country is. If their left is saying a little genocide okay it's probably a right leaning country.
Does anyone consider that there might be a large number of the people that consider themselves to be centrists are near the actual center, and that everyone dunking on them is imagining center of our current Overton window?
I think about that a lot.
(Not the guy in the meme, just in general)
I mean, even if not, why do both sides shit on them instead of trying to bring them closer to their side?
Do we not want to make change?
Because you need people for that.
Are we just concerned about being correct?
Because that does nothing to solve our problems.
The problem with leftists (and I say this as a leftist) is they resort to name calling of anyone who disagrees with them. Instead of listening to their point of view and trying to convince them otherwise. There's a real "othering" going on.
Who are the centrists even. I am a pro capitalist and I am extremely pro universal healthcare and education in addition to free market economy.
It seems what was meant by „centrist” is conservatives in the context of American politics.
Which primo is USA centric and secondo idk if even is a good definition of the word in that narrow context.
What the centrist so reviled here dislikes is being told we're no better than fascists for taking a small or piecemeal win rather than stomping our feet and going home if we don't get a full Marxist revolution today.
And not a soul in these comments noticed that the original post was about the "far left", not "the left". I'm "the left" and think the far left end of the bell curve is a bunch of fruits and nuts.