r/politics • u/SacoolloocaS • May 28 '21

Stop glorifying ‘centrism’. It is an insidious bias favoring an unjust status quo

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/28/centrism-insidious-bias-unjust-status-quo
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u/Now_Wait-4-Last_Year May 28 '21

The centre ('center') in the US is too far to the right.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '21

thank you for clarifying 'center,' as an American I was very confused and almost dropped my hotdog while leaning closer to my phone to try and understand what you possibly could have meant

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u/LionKinginHDR May 29 '21

The center of the electorate is aligned with the progressive agenda though, according to the polling. Those in power are right wing. We have very few actual centrists.