It's also a stunning example of what regulatory *competence* looks like. The Biden administration is a decidedly mixed bag. On the one hand there are empty suits masquerading as technocrats, champions of the party's #centrist wing (slogan: "Everything is fine and change is impossible"):

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/10/the-courage-to-govern/#whos-in-charge

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@jackLondon @UKLabour

“Far Left” in Labour?

What are you on about?

What does that even mean?

You’ve bought into the #Centrist shite peddled by the likes of Luke Akehurst & others in Labour HQ establishment who are gleefully expelling anyone who doesn’t agree with #Starner’s authoritarian diktat!

Sheesh! Please get off my timeline - you’re becoming boring

#every #centrist #ever

This survey didn't just check two categories. It checked four:
• #Liberal,
• #Conservative,
• #Centrist, and
• #Radical.
Yes, left and right radicals were grouped together. Good survey. :eyeroll:

But consider how a radical identifies. A #leftist wears that label on their sleeve, while a right-winger hides it and pretends to be a conservative instead. In other words, this chart is hiding how many people now have left-of liberal-ideals, within the missing 60% of respondents.
@liveposting

@AnthonyFStevens I could go on, but rather than debate the specifics point by point, or respond to your demand that I provide my own solutions, I want to make a simple point: this is #neoliberalism.

#Starmer exemplifies it, as did #Blair. They call themselves 'third way' or #centrist. But this is simply code for a slightly friendlier, or at least less openly predatory, form of neoliberal capitalism. The same assumptions are still foundational: that government policies are completely subject to the approval/disapproval of 'the market' (a reification of the plutocratic class) and so "we can't afford" to pursue more than the tiniest increments of justice, due to capitalist realism ("there is no alternative").

You seem to currently accept this set of assumptions & are arguing for what you see as better forms of it. Undoubtedly, you will in exasperation reply along the lines of "but that's all we can afford!", or demand a comprehensive alternative account. You may even accuse anyone who doesn't accept these things of being dangerously unrealistic. Maybe that's true.

At this point, I'm just hoping you realise that you (& Starmer) are operating within neoliberal assumptions (even if you think these assumptions are obvious/correct/unavoidable). #UKpol

@Padjo

Well I’ll defend my fellow centrists. I’m cognizant of an old Texas saw when referring to people of my ilk:

“There ain’t nothing in the middle of the road except dead armadillos”

With that out of the way.

I’ll say I’m pro capitalism, but with robust regulation.

I’m socially liberal and a fiscal realist.

I believe in a robust social safety net oriented to people who want to help themselves and which encourages others to do the same

#Centrism #Politics #Centrist

@drifthood

I haven’t read any Graeber, to my detriment. I had to smile at the video where he indicates that centrists don’t stand for anything.

I consider myself to be #Centrist, although I’m sure that #GOP types would abhor many or most of my views as I’m an #Atheist, #SocialLiberal, supporter of a robust social safety net with a bias towards helping people who want to help themselves and encouraging others to grow in a positive way

I think that constitutes values?

@adrienne

My take is that he’s a #centrist as am I although I imagine we arrived at that place from very different places.

I’m an #atheist, social liberal, supporter of robust social safety nets while also being a fiscal realist

French is an #Evangelical who opposed #LGBTQ legal rights but has since changed his stance. His recent writings have focused on his abhorrence if #Trumpism

So do I agree with him and all things? - no , but I do on some

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_French_(political_commentator)

"So-called 'centrist' groups would have you believe the two parties are equally extreme and what we really need is a third party “unity ticket” in 2024.

Oh, please.

You and I both know a third party run can only help deliver the White House to Trump in the event of a Biden v. Trump rematch"

~ George Takei

#centrist #ThirdParty #NoLabels

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/week-big-picture-july-12

@newrepublic
#Centrist (noun): an individual or group of straight white Christians who are still in the closet about their fascism.

She said that the group is "working with a broad range of #Dem orgs to stop No Labels from running a 3rd-party #presidential ticket."

ooo those big bad 3rd-party monsters are so scary! 😒 Here's an idea: let people #vote for who they want.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/09/democrats-third-party-candidate-biden-manchin-00105183
Dems’ mission to stop a #ThirdParty presidential bid hits the Hill
"#Officials from #progressive MoveOn and #centrist Third Way are planning to brief #Senate #Dems chiefs of staff about the risk it could pose to Pres #Biden"

#IAmDB

Centrist
Election thoughts
Appeal to many
Never-Trumpers hope
Beneficial

#centrist #election #politics #nevertrump #2024 #cinquain #poetry

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/election-2024-centrist-third-ticket-president-trump-biden-rcna92710

Wow, it's been over a week since someone called me an #NPC or #Centrist or #NeoLiberal or told me because I'm a #Boomer, I denied them everything good in their lives.

I think I should add to my #bio to anyone following me:

If you're #liberal or #centrist I'm gonna either mute you or block you because you will piss me off in the end.

I hate the #UnitedStates with every piece of me. I am ashamed to have been born here. I am distraught that my ancestors were ever born and that they ever had to endure the nightmare that is #PlantationNation. I am disgusted that I fell for the ruse and thought it was safe to have children. Now they are stuck in this #whitesupremacist hellhole that is getting worse each day. Thank God they got their degrees already. But my grandkids and nieces and nephews... sitting ducks for the Kens and Karens of the evil Unwarranted Default (#mainstream, #whitegaze, #centrist #AmeriKKKan society and the unendurable, unjust #statusquo it accepts and which it commands, abuses, and threatens the oppressed people it exploits to tolerate and support) and its inhumane, irredeemable #systemicracism. The #SCOTUS is a prime example of why I am over the human species and why I believe it has EARNED the punishment of #climatechange. No decent species would allow white supremacy, much less mandate it and profit from it. Any species that would do that deserves extinction. Given what I see happening in the US each day, I pray that day comes SOON.

by @DavidCorn in #MotherJones:

"No Labels is a political outfit that hails political centrism, calls for bipartisanship, and is considering running an independent ticket in the 2024 presidential election that could end up spoiling President Joe Biden’s reelection bid. On its website, the group urges politicians and citizens to eschew the 'extremists on the far left and right,' and it asks people who are 'fed up with the angriest voices dominating our politics' to sign up as members and donate to the group. But No Labels neglects to inform its online contributors that a cut of their gift goes to a company that aids Republican candidates and far-right organizations that engage in the harsh politics of extremism that No Labels professes to renounce."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/06/no-labels-is-helping-a-firm-that-raises-money-for-right-wing-extremists-anedot/

#NoLabels #centrism #centrist #centrists #FarRight #Anedot #JoeLieberman

building my compromise political party (its a compromise between mainstream 1910s political views and modern neoliberal ones), which of these policy positions suit you better?

#centrist

More #Greed and #gaslighting by #Conservative #joemanchin, falsely claiming to be a #centrist.

And, yes, #america is more #progressive than #MainstreamMedia continues to falsely claim.

https://youtu.be/RO0ugMGP0zo

We should really redefine some political terms.

#Centrist should be called #Conservative, because they are fine with the status quo: "Racism is bad, I don't want any more of it. "Anti-LGBTQ is bad, I don't want too much of it (but the T and Q are weird groomers)."
"Sexism is bad, but main characters in games who are girls is virtue signaling".

Conservatives should be named #Regressives, because they want to push the clock backwards:
"Racism is cool, women are inferior, gay people are demons",

According to #FatDonnyTwoTimes on his unTruth #Twitter wannabe today his opponents are both #Marxists and #Fascists! I guess he thinks he is a #Centrist?