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  • Democrats let fascism ramp up without doing anything, and now they aren’t doing anything to even slow it down. Are you denying that this is the American situation?

    I’m saying this is what centrism does when the slightest hint of fascism starts pushing and shoving: they give in, pretend to compromise, they’re happy when the fascist says “fine, we’ll cut our expectations for 20 crimes against humanity down to 10, but it’ll be back next week” and they pretend that’s progress. Sometimes they put their foot down, but only when putting your foot down has zero effect, and they say “see, we tried”.

    That is centrism, that is what Democrats did, and that is what’s happening here too with those “reasonable” parties. The “reasonable” argument is only on this side of the Atlantic, of course the Nazis in the US aren’t even pretending to have any reasonable discussion. But they did have a phase claiming that the Dems were rude and not doing anything bipartisan, which is why the Democrats tried so hard to project this image of reaching across the aisle for so long. See where that got them.


  • The “reasonable left”, the PS, wants to say that they still play ball, that they can be part of a government, that they’re not here to destroy the country, that they can work to keep the institutions working. But they never get any compromise going in their favor, and when they say “see, we tried” it’s already too late, and nothing they do gets anywhere, after they’ve killed anything the actual left tries.

    This is not reasonable. This is collaboration. We have proof of where that goes with the Democrats in the US. Only the right wing calls them reasonable because they allow the right to pass everything they want. Reasonable means you sign off on everything and get nothing.



  • There is no working with the “center” / center-right, they proved that again and again and again, they have not made a single compromise while constantly complaining that the left doesn’t want to work with them. Working with someone means both sides give something to the other, and the right only ever takes and never gives anything. They have to learn to play ball.