• OctopusKurwa @lemm.ee
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      Centrists are people who think being on the fence about every issue is a shortcut to being intelligent.

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      Same applies when you hear an American person say they’re a social-liberal but fiscal-conservative. They think it makes them sound like an enlightened centrist, but as soon as I hear it I think “oh, this person’s a Trumper who doesn’t have the balls to just say it.”

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        Fiscal conservatives quietly became Republicans, but not “conservatives”. There’s a weird thing going on with that here… Your not wrong, though. They have been greedy cowards of they took this stance in the last few decades.

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          Fiscally conservative should mean voting for Democrats because Republicans are fucking awful with money.

          But the Republicans still hold onto this myth that they’re somehow more financially responsible.

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            We need a reverse version of that “always has been” meme for “never were”

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      No one exists with views like this. I’ve done my research. I know! LOL

      When faced with a different view point they can’t fathom it’s easier to say it is not possible than to have a rational discussion. It’s easier to hate on people than to try to understand them. I find both sides to be extremely lazy in their thinking.

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      I’d absolutely vote for GOP 15 years ago depending on who is running. Today not so much.

      If the GOP ever puts forward another Romney I think you’ll find that plenty of centrists exist.

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      Remember that when the media starts flapping about centrists and swing voters. they dont actually exist.

      That’s about the worst sentence I have seen on lemmy so far.

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          Swing voters most assuredly exist and if you think they don’t you’re ignorant about the US political process

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          1. Not talking about grammar and you know it.
          2. It’s wrong because it’s simply too stupid to assume a whole caucus of voters don’t exist because you haven’t been outside US
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      Most people who label themselves leftists think it is socialism when the government does things and thus consider themselves socialists.

      It’s not a new thing that people support political ideologies, or identifying with certain ideologies, because they’re dumb.