Oh em gee, is France breaking the cycle?
M aybe :T
Hahah I’m terrified, living in North America
Are you forgetting to include a dishonest leftist that “solves” all the problems with policies that only increases them, or are you calling the leftists “centrists”?
Except the US(I don’t know other countries politics) doesn’t have any leftist politicians except maybe Bernie. If their first goal isn’t social policies and their second goal isn’t expanding personal liberties(civil rights, women’s rights) then they are not a leftist.
Bernie is really very centrist by European standards.
You see,the only true left is marxist lenonism all else is actually just centrism. /s
now i see where the phrase “democratic centrism” came from
Lmfao, the Overton window is waving at you from all the way over to the right…
“Leftists”… 😂😂
It always makes me laugh a bit when people describe neolibs as leftists lol. Then I just feel dead inside at how common it’s become for people to confuse centre left liberals for leftists (or even centre right in a lot of cases, especially the US)
Yeah, it’s depressing but not really surprising considering the deliberately poor political and historical (and otherwise) education we’re generally given, and the media (also deliberately of course) muddying the waters with modern day McCarthyism…
What are we talking about here?
Yeah it’s the old “No True Scotsman” fallacy.
Oh look… a right-winger that couldn’t recognize a leftist if one where to bite him in the arrse is whining about leftists.
Yawn.
Nope, France is unfortunately not breaking the circle, because the left did not win the election, they just have more MPs than the others, but not at all a strict majority. Now, Uninspiring “center” and right (and why not some far right) are trying to form an alliance to form a government…
Ireland doesn’t really have a far right. Most ofnyheir reactionary parties have been populist far left.
The concept is sound, but the flags dont necessarily fall correctly.
I don’t think Poland is accurate tbh, but otherwise, really accurate and scary
You break the cycle by voting. It’s all relative, you could have things cycling between “leftist” and “centrist” but leftist not voting means it cycles between “centrists” and the right-wing.
They say “uninspiring centrist” as if there has ever been something like an “inspiring” centrist.
Or a centrist.
Centrism doesn’t exist, they’re all conservatives that don’t like being called conservatives. The only thing they ever do is to give out the bare minimum of concessions to keep the status quo going.
That’s true for American “centrists”, but not for some European centrists. Centrists here are often either conservatives that are pretty left relatively to their party or social democrats that are pretty right relatively to their party, meeting somewhere in the middle.
