@mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2026-11-02 18:33 UTC
@rbreich@masto.ai Informed centrism does not exist. There is only socialism and liberalism on the left and conservatism and reactionism on the right.
Only people who are very ignorant do not actually have a "lean."
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@Felis_Catus_Domesticus@privacysafe.social 2026-11-02 19:06
@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.