• SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    I do listen to “both” sides! That’s exactly why I’m a leftist!

    I don’t get why centrists think that you have to be “centrist” to listen to both sides, or why doing so makes you a centrist.

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      10 months ago

      For America I’m what used to be a centrist, but now unfortunately I would be considered far left. I hate what we have become. Vote blue!

      Green is better but not enough people even know about the Green party that it would be viable

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        10 months ago

        The Democrats are nominating a genocide denier though. Similarly to pretty much every election for the last 50 years. (Not genocide specifically, but a candidate with major issues in their beliefs). Voting blue simply allows them to continue ignoring us. It also lends legitimacy to the winner. If the 2020 election had seen Biden win 15% to Trump’s 10%, that’d be a much better case for Biden being an illegitimate president. When you do average things, you get average results. There is zero reason to think voting blue is ever going to fix any of our problems, because it hasn’t so far.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, as it turns out, when you actually hear out both sides, it becomes very clear that one side is, for the most part, completely full of shit. And that the other side barely pays lip service to their supposed beliefs, even though they’re somewhat correct.

      If you start out right in the middle, and then every time you find out that you’re wrong about something, change your mind on that topic, overtime you’ll shift further and further left. Not to say being the most left is correct, but the vast majority of correct answers to topics lie to the left of Democrats, while most of the obviously false ones lie within the beliefs of establishment Dems and Republicans.