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Allowing criticism from the left and recognizing that American centrists are right-wingers by another name, no matter their party affiliation.
Criticism has always been allowed, you're doing it now. How do you actually secure a better alternative?
The top comment is calling this post left splitting, and implying that this type criticism is dangerous/nefarious.
And that's the comment I was responding to.
But you still made the comment you did. As I said, criticism is and has always been allowed.
Criticism by itself doesn't accomplish anything. Sure, mollifying centrists has not been ideal, but unless there's an actionable alternative, it's the best we've got at the moment. I'm all for alternatives, I just see a lot of social inertia and none of the alternatives I see are capable of offering a better outcome in the face of that inertia.
If you have a suggestion to elevate progressives into office, I would sincerely love to hear it; that is my preferred outcome. But complaining about the dominant strategy without offering an actionable alternative is, as the top comment identified, splitting the left.
"Sure we keep eating shit doing it, but it's the 'dominant strategy' so it's forbid to criticize it!"