@Felis_Catus_Domesticus@privacysafe.social
2026-11-02 19:06 UTC
@mattsheffield@mastodon.social @rbreich@masto.ai
the WW2 Generation and the Silent Generation made centrism work ok for a time, but that was in an America that no longer exists- an America that was strongly protestant and culturally white. Minorities and non-whites fared less well in that era. Now that the USA is multicultural and non-white dominant, centrism no longer works. We are simply too diverse. Older generations were able to make it work because society was far more homogenous than it is today.
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@Felis_Catus_Domesticus@privacysafe.social 2026-11-02 19:08
@mattsheffield@mastodon.social @rbreich@masto.ai Centrism in US politics was all but dead by the late 1990's. Clinton's moral escapades and flexible morality. shamelessness and elastic sense of truth opened the door for what we "enjoy" today.. Centrism was dead long before we realized it.