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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Centrists? In most of the world they’d be considered strongly right-leaning.

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s actually true in the US too by those not deluded, stupid, faithful or combination of all three. Problem is those people constitute 80-95% of the population because our education is purposefully shit tier

[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

no they dont. most people are not centrists, and certainly not 80%. if that were true the establishment dem policy of pandering to them would result in overwhelming victory in every election. what we see in reality is them losing when they do that.

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

That’s not at all what I said, I said that most people in the US think the DNC is on the left, even though they objectively ain’t, I didn’t say anything about what most people considered themselves