A New Report Offers a Stark Warning to Centrists. An intensive research project in France finds the far right on the march, with voters viewing the political center as vapid and discredited.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/07/24/centrism-france-marine-le-pen-column-01008580
10 Comments
unmagical@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 61d
I mean the middle of "don't kill people" and "let's kill everyone that isn't like me" is not a very defensible or principled location.
ruuster13@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 61d
Don't kill people is the centrist position. The left position is eat the rich.
unmagical@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 61d
I'm not gonna handwave and ascribe a single goal to all those on the left, but I'd wager a lot of disagreement on the left is the means by which to get to a world where violence is no more--more than it is to get to a world where violence is enacted upon the correct group of wrong thinkers.
ruuster13@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 61d
Yup, also the "centrist" aka democrat position. Maybe it's a big tent after all.
unmagical@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 61d
Sure, Bro, whatever.
I'm not convinced that socialists, communists, and anarchists are all in alignment on their goals and means, and that dems spend their time assessing the effects of leftist infighting on who gets to die at the end of the day, but if that's how you wanna view the world no one can stop you.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 61d
Why eat the profligates when you can lash them to a cross?
nialv7@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 61d
Centrists: kill everyone, but only a little
Lasherz12@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 61d
Vapid is a great way to describe centrists.
SaltyAmerican@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 61d
Centrists have always been vapid, but they are getting more open pushback as more people see they are toxic
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 61d
BuT tHe sWiNg VoTeRz?!1
jaksoy@shredderfood.net · -2 pts · 61d