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IrishBubbaLiberal

(2,561 posts)
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 09:42 AM Jun 25

Political centrism is nonsense. There's no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.

Here's your periodic reminder that political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.

Here's your periodic reminder that political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.

Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) 2025-06-25T02:39:32.816062Z


You should have told the Clintons that 40 years ago when they began building the centrist road to today's fascism.

(@squeek-king.bsky.social) 2025-06-25T13:35:13.389Z
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Political centrism is nonsense. There's no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy. (Original Post) IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 25 OP
100% correct malaise Jun 25 #1
If a person can become rzemanfl Jun 25 #2
To be fair, a centrist today is not the same as a centrist in the Clinton years unblock Jun 25 #3
He figured it out. Better late than never HelpImSurrounded Jun 25 #4

rzemanfl

(30,703 posts)
2. If a person can become
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 09:47 AM
Jun 25

an oligarch in a 95% tax bracket I might be okay with that if substantial death taxes were in place,

unblock

(55,400 posts)
3. To be fair, a centrist today is not the same as a centrist in the Clinton years
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 10:10 AM
Jun 25

Just as a "conservative" today is very different from a conservative back then.

The main reason centrism today is nonsense is because the middle ground between liberal and conservative has turned into the middle ground between sanity and insanity.

The first middle ground existed, the second doesn't.

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