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Anon searches for normal politics (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (61 children)

Discourse evaporated when the rightwing and Faux "News" declared "compromise" as blasphemy. That's why so many moderate Republicans will still vote along party lines, despite knowing the candidate is batshit crazy. To vote Democrat is to commit suicide to those people.

Edit: was trying to get this comment done before kid woke up from nap and barely made it. Fixed the faux pa.

[+] [email protected] -30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (19 children)

I've only ever heard left wingers claim that compromise is 'blasphemy' or that "center politics" is just for people who are too afraid to admit they are right wing.

Fuck, there's even memes abotu being centrist is being OK with half the holocaust or the KKK.

Your comment is exactly the insane shrill partisan hackery that is the problem.

BAM - just immediately guns blazing accusing the other side of what your side is guilty of.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It was right wingers and centrists who allowed the holocaust to happen... source: rise and fall of the third reich

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

True. But it was left wingers who killed millions of Russians in gulags, who committed the Cambodian genocides, the long marches and purges of Maoist communism.