It’s literally this easy…
It just requires the centrists to side with the left.
What I don’t get, is in any country they’re routinely the ones that screech “both sides” when criticized.
Like bro, youre not “the left” your by your own definition “half way”. Why wouldn’t a centrist get criticism from both sides?
It won’t be that easy. The centrists are more like rightwing. They delivered a nasty immigration law and THEY installed the far-right with their gamble and bad politics. We won a battle but the war isn’t over…
Yep, we have three factions in America:
- Conservative
- Moderate
- Progressive
1 and 2 criticize 3
2 and 3 criticize 1
But when it’s time to criticize 2…
If 1 does it, 2 “compromises” with them
If 3 criticizes 2, then 2 starts screaming about “both sides” and saying group 3 is really group 1
It doesn’t make any fucking logical sense, but that’s where we’ve been for decades. And it’s not working.
it’s quite a simplistic view. Even in the left side you can have some flavours, so you still have to check how they will compromise and not stab you in the back. We’re in that kind of fucking shit in France right now.
In America, you’re kinda fucked, but worse. If you had elected Bernie Sanders (“left”), maybe you would have a chance, but now you’re stuck with a neolib old geezer (your center I guess, but it’s a bad joke), and a far-right dictator. Good luck with your middle ground…
It’s because the corporate donors that support 2 are okay with 1 but fucking hate 3 because they threaten profits.
In America centrist are just gullible people who think things like, “the economy is better under a republican.” Without ever realizing the economy they experience is the one that has been reigned in by a democrat which will then be let loose again by a republican just in time for a democrat to regain office.
They say shit like, “I error on the side pro-life when it comes to abortion.” Acting like they were being humane when the real humane thing would be to prevent the suffering of both the mother and the child by building social structures that protect the poor. Things like universal healthcare, universal income, mandatory maternity leave, etc.
Centrist believe the middle ground is if you listen to everyone in earnest then judge based on that. Never seeing that these truths they trust in are never the reality. The reality being is that things are very complicated and if you want to parse out your ideology you’ll have to do more than read the headline.
When you go issue by issue, the overwhelming majority supports left policies and rejects right wing fuckery because right wing fuckery fucks over 90% of people.
Unfortunately most people are idiots and left candidates are morons when it comes to self marketing and expressing ideas, so it’s always a coin flip…
They support “left” policies as long as those policies don’t hurt corporate profits… Then they agree with the right. All they need to do is take that one last little step to the left, embrace the working class, and abandon the ever shrinking right, and they’d never lose again.
Corporate profits and hoarding wealth before paying for society is what hurts 90% of the people. Any individual social policy only hurts a small percentage of people at a time. (I know theoretically an attack on any of us is an attack on all of us, but unfortunately most people only care about things when they are directly effected)
Let’s see if it lasts enough to form a working government. Here’s to hoping this holds against history!
May I ask why the meme template got mirrored?
I thought it was because Europeans drive on the other side of the road?
But I’m not 100% which side France uses.
It’s not that easy. First, who are the centrist? Things shifted to the right so much Macron is definitely right wing. You might call the Parti Socialiste (PS) centrist, it has a right and left wing in itself. In this sense you can call it an alliance.
But if you are talking about Macron’s party I wouldn’t call that an alliance. Some withdrew when they were against a far right and a PS opponent but some didn’t when it was against a far right and a leftist opponent (or they had to be heavily pressured). And now in the parliament it’s definitely not going to be an alliance, they’ll be voting against most things the Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) brings up, they voted with the far right in the past and will do it again.
The whole point of Macron’s dissolution was probably to break the left in the first place, and they keep trying to split the NFP by saying they are willing to negotiate with it’s center part but not it’s left part.
Macron can easily qualify as far right now. Anti immigration, extreme capitalism, fascism, that’s enough.
