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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

macron did and he's a centrist.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't know how centrist translates since I'm an American and American liberalism is Western European center-right.

Fwiw: it seems so or at least a LOT of overlap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

In the U.S., everything is right wing and there are no liberals. The Overton window in the U.S. is so far to the right that even basic civil rights, democracy, and freedoms that exist elsewhere are seen as radical.

Right-wingers and capitalists have rebranded their system as "neoliberalism," pretending it is about freedom. But real freedom: civil rights and human rights, democracy, secularism, economic and political freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom of religion... they cannot exist under capitalism, where a small class rules over the majority. True democracy means workers control society, not just picking which capitalist will exploit them.

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