#Center Left

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Politics in the U.S. have shifted sooo much to the right that now there are only two competing political spectrums:

The far right drawing bills that would allow kids/ teenagers to work longer hours and perform some currently banned tasks, cutting taxes on the super rich (increasing them on the poor), criminalizing abortion (some states even want to implement the death sentence to women who have abortions), criminalizing trans people (by banning drag shows, or anything that 'sexualizes' children, without of course fobidding beauty competitions in little girls in bikinis), banning any books that talk about racism, trans people or homosexuality from schools, etc. There are people even talking about banning women's rights to vote.

Versus the center right, a.k.a. Democrats which are even more right than the CDU, which is Germany's center right party that widely endorses universal health care and many other social issues that the Democratic party rarely even talks about or would even dream in supporting ("Like why should I pay for other's peoples' wellbeing").

The center left, i.e. Bernie Sanders, is out of the panorama, since it is considered far left even by the Democrats in the U.S. of A. Bernie Sanders is by no means, a socialist. He'd be an average SPD member, which is Germany's current ruling center left party.

While the Evangelical right of the U.S. does not represent the majority, they have so much power, that they managed to succeed in drawing all these antisocial legislations. It's not only a democracy question, but the truly worrying thing is that they can be considered the Western Hemisphere's equivalent of the Taliban.

[toscapringle]

I heard an analysis on NPR about how a guy in New York was getting dropped from dates because of his politics - that he supported Trump. But not in a MAGA way, more for the policies. You can imagine New York and most women living there lean liberal - hence the clash and normalization of othering those in the local political minority - republicans/conservatives.

When he found a relationship that stuck, he was able to have deep conversations with his partner who was female and recognize the hurt that some conservative policies on social justice have.

We all care about the policies that affect ourselves the most, and care little about the policies that affect us the least (but obviously affect other people). It's a two way street. It's not all just superwealthy, it's medium businesses that are affected, and the reason it's matters to any American reading this is because they have a vote too. And if you dint consider it... well, look where we are. And this story launched before the election even happened, which was much more foretelling that what polls were expecting.

You can't have social justice without considering everyone. I think that's the error not only Harris's campaign made, but the entire political party made. It's been an underlying problem for years, and it's finally risen up it's ugly head. The wolf we tried to defeat was inside us all along. She tried to fight it (we're not moving back, we're moving forward/this is a campaign for everybody) but the damage had already been done over many years. And it gobbled up the votes of those extraneous people that didn't have a connection via being a conventionally excluded identity or knowing someone who is an excluded identity, and they formed their own anti identity to have something to belong to.

The people conventionally excluded (the left) isolated themselves. We were trying to win the war in the way they won the war, via force by numbers and sheer majority, but it's not gonna work cause we don't have majority. So the other thing we can do is give what we want to get. Start the invitation. Give respect to get respect. The same goes for them, but you are only in control of what you do.

[arco-pluris]

Transcentrist: neither centrist or extremist; beyond centers and extremes (metacentric). Based on transtheist (neither atheist or theist).

:Does this mean basically centre-right or center-left?

:Not essentially. It can sound contradictory, it could be seen as a center-center wing, or even an extreme center.

This follows the logic of empty sets, nihilism, nullity, indifference, or opting out concepts of non-duality (or nonpolarity), but also adding a possibility for ambivalence or offering ambiguity as an option. Not everything needs to be in a horseshoe magnetic theory, or political foursquare Cartesian compass.

[sofiaflorina2021]

The Youngest Elected Serving State Leader in 2024

The current Prime Minister of Iceland (Forsætisráðherra Íslands) since 21 December, 2024, Kristrún Frostadóttir, from the Social Democratic Alliance party (centre-left), is the youngest elected serving state leader per January 2025 at age 36. Hopefully their government will run smoothly and still get parliamentary support.

She is beautiful!

Media Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DEQM4jEAHzi/

[op0ssumlord]

Here are some of my controversial beliefs as a center-left, dyed hair, they/them pronoun having, autistic, woke bitch:

Gender and sex are two different things and even when you’re trans, you’re still your biological sex. Example: A trans-women is a women but also male (because biological sex)

Kids under the age of 10 should not be able to make the decision to get a puberty blocker yet.

Not liking someone in a romantic/sexual way because they are trans is 1000% okay, because everyone has preferences.

Body positivity should be about bringing positivity to things you can’t control, height, acne, high metabolism, disability’s, low metabolism, etc. You should be happy in your own body but don’t promote unhealthy life styles, obesity, anorexia, etc.

Just fuck off! If it doesn’t hurt you then it doesn’t matter. Just ignore people and let them live life.

Transgender is different from transsexual!

[pogonophobe]

What are my political views?

I'm kind of apolitical. I never saw a point in affiliating to any particular branch of politics. But the world we live in is chock full of hatred and divisions. If you refuse to take any sides, you run the risk of being proverbially decimated by whoever is pointing the sword in your direction. I mean I don't really like Neo-Nazis or extreme right-wingers, but I don't really like capitalism-hating Commies or left-wing beardo hipsters either. I find someone like Donald Trump as disagreeable as a Commie like Hugo Chavez. Over the years, I have agreed with CENTER-LEFT politics. With a TWIST. I'm a patriotic person and expect everyone to be loyal to their countries. Anyone who betrays their country is someone I wouldn't trust. That means unlike other Center-leftists, I'm definitely not anti-war. Sometimes wars are needed to create lasting peace and order. Imagine how Europe would be today if the Third Reich in Germany wasn't put to an end.

[dollhousemausoleum]

This is exactly why the right always prevails: they are a united front. We, on the other hand, all eat each other the fuck alive. Infighting and purity politics are the fucking death of us all.

It doesn’t matter how much we all (democratic socialists, far leftists, liberals, center lefts, internet communists, apolitical people who just see how evil the right is, ANYONE ON THE SIDE OF HUMAN RIGHTS) hate each other, I don’t care. Just remember, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”.

On a side note, the anonymity here makes way too damn many of you WAY too damn comfortable with flagrantly telling people to kill themselves over literally anything.

I swear to god if any of you people decides to get on a political high horse at other leftists for any reason now I’m going to make all my threats real at you

I don’t fucking care what your nuances are if you’re against fascism you’re with me even if you disagree with me on other things.

And we’re doing this together. Because at this point, we have to.

Band together, everyone. I don’t care if you’re center-left or far-left or a socialist or a social democrat or a “safety net” capitalist or whatever the fuck.

There is safety in community, and we need that community right now more than ever.

Threatening to dox each other or telling each other to unalive over one badly worded post or slightly bad take isn’t going to do us any good and it’s going to isolate us all more.

If you are against fascism, we are on the same side, at least for now.

We can argue nuance later. Today, we stay together to survive.

[deceased-bunny]

Night

[thenewdemocratus]

The Washington Post: E.J. Dionne: The Resurgent Progressives

Source:The New Democrat  I agree with most of what EJ Dionne said in his column today. I thought his best line was “that to have a vibrant middle you need a vibrant Left and Right countering each other. To give the middle and again I’m talking about the American political spectrum if you are having trouble following along, you need both a strong Left and Right for the middle to be able to pick…

[eldritchamy]

HDG story alignment chart

[iamdotwav88]

Blue circle/independent

Where do you stand?

[bubblybloob]

I find it very funny that supposedly every time our voices bicker and argue, the princess is just left there, totally unaware.

She seemingly acknowledges this too! After a while of back and forth in our mind, she’ll pipe up because she’s noticed we’ve gotten lost in our thoughts. She must think we have trouble with zoning out. She’s not necessarily wrong, I guess.

[pocketgalaxies]

JUST MAKE IT DIE, OR YOU WILL TURN IT ALL TO ASHES AND BLOOD

[rauberrauber]

shes so pretty 2 me ok

[ventique18]

"I hope you can forgive me for what I'm about to do."

You flinch, terrified of what this powerful man could do to a person like you. But why? What did you do? You thought your dearest friend would never hurt you.

And then you feel it. The brush of his soft hair against your forehead. His minty breath blowing small puffs on your nose. The tips of his fingers warming yours in the cold night-- he had removed his gloves, you realize. You only barely register him weaving your hands together so he could feel your palms against his palms; holding them closer to his chest so he could sense your beating heart-- or perhaps so you could sense his beating heart.

And he holds you both like that. Perfectly still. Just for a few minutes. Just a few minutes of calm, of comfort, of warmth. And then it's gone.

"My apologies for suddenly holding you like that." He whispers almost inaudibly.

You pull him down and touch your lips against his cheek. Your mouth is chilly against his skin; are you nervous?

"My apologies for suddenly kissing you like that." You say with a tremble.

A pause. Then a smile.

"No... I don't mind at all.

... But may you kiss the other one as well, for symmetry's sake?"

A twinkle of a laugh.

"I think a good symmetry needs a perfect midpoint too."

It takes two kisses before he understands what you mean.

[casstars]

Been franning those Mayas