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3. To be fair, a centrist today is not the same as a centrist in the Clinton years

Reply to IrishBubbaLiberal (Original post)

Wed Jun 25, 2025, 10:10 AM

Jun 2025

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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Political centrism is nonsense. There's no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy. [View all] IrishBubbaLiberal Jun 2025 OP

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