The only people I ever see saying we should listen to both sides, generally are talking about one side that is both progressive, compassionate, and has ideas based in science vs another side that thinks Hitler was the coolest person to ever live and that vaccines will literally give you brain damage.
They have a ridiculously shifted Overton Window. When the “middle ground” is between centre-right and far-right, it’s obviously going to get labeled as “fascist” by people on the left.
It may help to realize that compared to other countries.
America’s typical left is more like the center, the right are literally attacking the goverment and trying to make it authoritarian (Jan 6 and Project 2025), and the centrists are telling us to atleast hear out the people who led a coup and expect us to forget about it.
That’s why the centrists sound ridiculous to us, it’s one thing to hold centrist views (which is actually the right compared to the first world) but telling us to listen to both sides when the other side has given up on democracy and are testing the waters for a forceful takeover, it’s absurd.
TIL that Americans hate centrists, and that anyone that doesn’t fully support the left must be fascists. What the fuck is going on in your country?
The only people I ever see saying we should listen to both sides, generally are talking about one side that is both progressive, compassionate, and has ideas based in science vs another side that thinks Hitler was the coolest person to ever live and that vaccines will literally give you brain damage.
They have a ridiculously shifted Overton Window. When the “middle ground” is between centre-right and far-right, it’s obviously going to get labeled as “fascist” by people on the left.
It may help to realize that compared to other countries.
America’s typical left is more like the center, the right are literally attacking the goverment and trying to make it authoritarian (Jan 6 and Project 2025), and the centrists are telling us to atleast hear out the people who led a coup and expect us to forget about it.
That’s why the centrists sound ridiculous to us, it’s one thing to hold centrist views (which is actually the right compared to the first world) but telling us to listen to both sides when the other side has given up on democracy and are testing the waters for a forceful takeover, it’s absurd.
Brainwashing, gaslighting, demoralization, retconning…etc.
A guy on X and Lemmy don’t represent America.