There Is No Such Thing As Centrism
Americans don't want Democrats to make policy like Republicans. They want them to fight like Republicans.
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.
Check out Denny Carter's BFT Podcast on the failings of centrism in the Trump era
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. I suppose this is the fate of the American millennial.
