There Is No Such Thing As Centrism

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Any time you hear a cable news pundit talk about centrism, or a newspaper columnist write about centrism, or a politician programmed by their corporate masters opine on the value and necessity of centrism, remember that centrism isn’t real. Centrism is whatever you want it to be. There is no firm definition of political centrism because it means different things to different people, it means anything to anyone, depending on their political aims, their audiences, and the people who put money into their checking accounts. Scratch the surface of centrism – dig a little deeper, but not too deep, for hellfire could lick your face – and you’ll find it is nothing but a magic elixir designed in a lab to suffocate any public policy that could interrupt the logic of capital (eternal growth) for even one moment. The New York Times on Thursday released polling about the direction Democrats should move in the coming years. The Times’ questions and framing was vague and unhelpful, seemingly created to start a 100-years war on Bluesky, where folks are still hashing out the 2016 Democratic Party primary in less-than-cordial ways. An outlet like NYT, one of the major media companies that simply can’t comprehend the current political mood of the American electorate and won’t acknowledge the unprecedented nature of Democrats’ midterm advantage, would never, ever ask the following questions about the direction of the Republican Party. The Times asked potential Democratic Party backers if they would like to see the party move left, stay put, or move toward the “center.” Read more at BadFaithTimes.com .