That's not even radical left. That's like slightly left of center.
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But that's what they were told radical leftist is! The propaganda has been wildly successful.
The overton window in the US has shifted pretty far to the right.
the overton window isn’t real. it only ever constrains the left. the right doesn’t acknowledge it, and clearly doesn’t need to
It's real, but viewed from the wrong perspective. The overton window is the set of ideas that The general public will find acceptable.
The right have been dragging it right in America (along with the rest of the world). They've done this by joking about various topics, then backing off. Individually, it doesn't make much difference. With the media machine the right have, and a few decades, and we ended up here.
The left chooses to be constrained by it, rather than trying to push it back to counter the fascists.
The traditional conservatives (like Mitch McConnell) realized that if they pretended to be Nazis, it'd shift the Overton window right enough that the compromise in the middle would be what they wanted in the first place.
The problem with doing that is that you attract True Believers. And they lost control of the rope they were pulling.
Maybe that's the meme. One side always points out what's so bad about the other side while whitewashing their own sides issues meanwhile casting anyone who has a different view on any issue as a "Centrist" that needs to be taught a lesson.
While I get what you mean, what is the radical left then? Do they break into large companies and take the food and spread to everyone through the night... I mean I guess they could actually be trying to disrupt capitalism somehow, but how? Killing a person doesn't end capitalism.
There is almost nothing going on in the world that could classify as real leftwing extremism. Every few decades some cars get light on fire at a political event and that's about it. In Germany the RAF is still the example for the radical left after like 3 or 4 decades of nothing happening because they don't have new examples. They shot some politicians in the 70s and 80s. There hasn't been anything like that since. Everything you hear about the extrem left is basically propaganda by the right and capitalists. If you want to see right wing extremism it is probably sufficient to watch the damn news. The overton window has now made fascism normal. People are just going with it because people always are going with what the "current thing" is.
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It's what republicans call the "radical left," but honestly it's just center-left.
Fortunately there aren't many (if any at all) actual "radical leftists" in US politics currently (though I'd call them "left-wing extremists" to differentiate from the republican hyperbolic scare-tactic).
They exist on the internet, the people I'm referring to are basically the types you find on hexbear, lemmygrad, and .ml
They certainly exist but fortunately most are little more than keyboard warriors. They do give leftist politics as a whole a bad name though, and to an extent enable and justify the caricatures that right-wingers depict the entire left as.
I assume the "centrist" in the OOP is probably deceived into thinking the DSA are all tankies (but as we know, tankies hate the DSA). So she thinks she has to choose between "radical right and radical left", when really the choices are "radical right or center left".
The guy responding is making the assumption that what she means by "radical left" is actually "center left," which is a justifiable assumption seeing as an actual "radical left" option isn't even on the table...
The lemmygrad and Hexbear types are left, but they are authoritarian left, which makes them in my eyes closer to the fascists than to any legitimate left wing movement that wants people to thrive.
The reduction of USA politics down to a single dimension (l/r) is absurd and the cause why the left in the US is so fractured. Authoritarians, regardless of left or right wing, are primarily engaged with securing power, just as long as they stay in power, while the libertarians (l/r) are fractured for a good reason - Right wing Libs (aka "the establishment") do not have much in common with left wing, anti-authoritarian positions.
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Fine. Let’s switch to ranked choice voting so more than two parties are viable.
That's what I'm saying. So far in states that have a super majority like Red states theyve banned RCV and even states that are super majority Blue like WA state the legislature year after year refuses to make it law.
Great example of why those on the left are not perfect, there is a lot of room for improvement to go further left and not be like MAGA or fascist.
Oregon voted it down too because it was too confusing. Sigh...
The Oregon Democratic party was also likely against it because they're pushing a system that's much better. They're all in on STAR.
Which is over at starvoting.org
The failure of democracy in 'Murica isn't a bug, it's a feature
The issue is, Ranked Choice doesn't actually make that happen.
Ranked Choice is a very old voting system, first written about by The Marquis de Condorcet in 1785.
Condorcet was a mathematician and was sort of interested in electoral politics... Which ended up in him dying in a French prison as a enemy of the Revolution.
Neither here nor there. Anyway Condorcet only had contempt for his version of RCV because not only did it fail to elect the pairwise winner, it could actually be twisted to elect the pairwise loser.
The pairwise winner is someone who can win in a one on one election vs every other candidate. It's now called the Condorcet winner.
Anyway, RCV was then reinvented in the 1820s as the Single Transferable Vote for use in multiple winner elections, and then a decade or two later the multiple winner part was stripped out to create the version of RCV that Condorcet was not a fan of, nor was the creator of STV.
Then in the 1990s a lobbying group called FairVote started pushing the broken RCV.
And the system has broken in the real world. Burlington Vermont 2009, and the Alaska congressional election of 2022 are both well documented.
The meta-analysis is that RCV tends to break at a rate of about 4% of the time with three candidates, and about 7% with 4.
It gets worse if the candidates are all somewhat viable.
FairVote has to date ignored or actively downplayed these issues.
The good news is that other voting systems exist and actually do break the two party dominance.
Approval is used in STL City elections, and STAR is used by the Democratic party of Oregon.
Score is used in a lot of feedback forms, rate a group of things on a scale, 1-5, 0-100, etc.
Isn’t failing 4% of the time like a thousand million times better than our current failure rate of 100%?
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That's not the radical left. That's a centrist platform, none of those policies are even socialist.
And yeah, I know those are really her options.
Things like making sure medical issues don't bankrupt you is left of center regardless of the system (at least slightly, and it is a policy that has been proven to be advantageous for countries at large), but the US conflates them with large scale nationalizing of industry and removing the freedom to have private property. Taxing Billionaires for a substantial amount of their wealth is also left of center (and something the average person would benefit greatly from). Both of those things are what socialists are advocating for, and with good reason.
But none of it is extreme left. USians cant even name extreme left positions anymore. Extreme left would be nationalizing Silicon Valley and putting them under UN control, it would be dismantling private health insurance completely and using their funds to create a nationwide system like the NHS (without being starved like the NHS). It would be a tax rate of 100% for every income (including non-realized wealth growth) above a certain amount to finance public services.
Keeping the population healthy is completely independent of left-right thinking; keeping the workforce able is a slightly right-wing concern. De-fanging the natural monopoly that always appear in the private health market is a completely right-wing concern.
Every moderate position favors the state providing health-care. It's not a left-wing point.
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The mythical centrist (is actually far right but doesn't want to admit it)
They want all the treats that come from exploiting others but don't want to seem rude like those "far right" wingers that just say it (shudder)
Bro literally just listed the centrist platform and labeled it "radical left" lol
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the radical left depicted here are not who i would define as radical left but just normal. or center.
'radical left' is who i would define someone who would dox an innocent person online and get them killed without a second thought because they were too emotionally outraged to read a name or story thoroughly. like what happeneed in the "don't #$*@ with cats" documentary.
or emotionally manupulate center swinging politics and hiding behind their ranks and reasonings for 'protection of their rights' when they did something unethical. like accusing someone of bigotry for calling the cops after scamming them.
we got to stop pretending this isnt happening and call it out as a problem cuz it is that kind of callousness that the maga mind do to deny their own radicals aren't that unreasonable. the wrong people are referring to their ability to reason as 'radical' and it burries the real radicals.
I mean ok but I'd say at least 3/4 of the things on the "radical right" list are also readily found in people describing themselves as centrist or moderate right...
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Left wants to make world better and at least liveable for everyone,
right wants things to be better only for themselves and also keep purging people off their group so fewer will get more, rest are just "lesser humans" that dont matter to them.
World where right has won completely will likely end as last human kills the second last.
World where right has won completely will likely end as last human kills the second last.
I mean it's unfortunate that not everyone can make it, but that's just how nature works. There's no place for weakness, and the sacrifice of one life for increasing our control of global GDP by 50% is just worth it. Sorry not sorry.
I know you were shitposting but they said the last human would kill the 2nd to last human just to say they "won". Except their act of "winning" causes humanity to go extinct.
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Universal healthcare is considered pretty centrist in a lot of Europe...
Well, it used to be at any rate.
The success of the Trump regime has caused all of our right wing to move to the far right and they've dragged "centrists" along with them, so now even something like universal healthcare that was formerly very popular with centrists is now suddenly "far left". The narrative is that we simply can't afford universal healthcare anymore (because we have to give tax cuts to the rich, for the Economy™)
But this same person probably has no problem badgering people left of her to choose between centrist Dems and Republicans, who are both too conservative for many.
It's "vote blue no matter who" and "pick the lesser evil" - but only when it makes others uncomfortable.
We need to start talking about "perceived as normal" privilege. With the stress on 'perceived' - because people who are ostensibly still comfortable in this political climate are NOT normal.
What is normal, and responsible, is realizing that what we've been doing is broken and we need to try some new things. Like politicians who want to act like public servants.
poor alison, lost her mind
"The Right is mean, but the Left is annoying in how it wants me to treat trans people like they're people."
I hate these shitty posts with a burning passion. They got posted on here every other day to farm engagement from idiots who don't even bother to question anything.
Both notions pushed here are just false dichotomies. Alison is pushing a flase dichotomy because there's more choices than extreme right or left and she's not being forced to choose. Qasim is also pushing a false dichotomy because his manichean framing is inherently wrong. His political team is not the embodiment of all that is good and his opposition is not the embodiment of all that is evil.
They're both being disingenuous by intentionally reducing everything to black and white absolutes. Their intention is to segregate people into rigid camps and alienate people like me who see through the bullshit by pretending we're siding with evil by not choosing to go along with them. It's so obvious that they're employing dishonesty to divide people in order to give them themselves an insulated audience that they can grift on. It's beyond me how anybody can give people like the ones in the post even a silver of support, they don't deserve it.
What if I'm a male xenophobic racist who wants women to exist as sex toys to men and have no rights of their own and supports killing random civilians and children in other countries, especially when it grows in to genocide, but also wants a good life for the common male workers of the country, universal healthcare, and a sustainable climate?
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I'm pretty sure Radical Left(tm) here means Tankies, not Dems. But with Americans, one never knows
What I feel like a lot of people in the comment section here aren't allowing us that the meme is criticizing the mainstream (I.e., propagandized) idea of the "radical left" and how "centrists" are in fact right wing but brainwashed into thinking they are moderate.
The "radical left" is just what a generation simmering in a fetid soup of Fox News mental decay calls common sense, basic human right policy. That's what I read is the point of the comic.
Here on Lemmy tankies exist.
But on the English-speaking Twitter, it's almost certainly not about them. And if it's about real world politics, then it's certainly about the non-fascist section of the Dems.
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