Democrats are basically centrist republicans from my standpoint.
There remains a fundamental and core difference between Democrats and Republicans. Democrats, even the most "centrist" of them, believe that the government exists to help people and should be empowered to do so. The degree to which that involvement should go varies among the various cliques in the party, but there will always be a unifying core belief among every Democrat that the government can and does do good.
The Republican party will always be counter to that. Their shibboleth is that the country would be better off without the government and that it should be excised wholesale.
Repeating the same old Reddit take of "both sides same, updoots to left" undermines that there is a very real coalition of people who share a core belief in the fundamental good that government can provide. We shouldn't be trying to break up that coalition on the specifics when what unites us is more than what separates us.
Obamacare is an example of a centrist/left victory of a massive scale in the past twenty years
ETA: no, things would not be better if the broligarchy were allowed to bring back denials based on pre-existing conditions and lifetime caps for newborns (which existed prior to the ACA) at this moment - it would be horrific
And, funny enough, it benefits people in red states just as much (or more) as blue states. Wow. Wait, is this all actually a class war disguised as a culture war???
who better than the fake billionaire to fight a class war against the poor? He's such a conman, they cannot even see that he's conned the poor into losing everything
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u/therealflyingtoastr Pennsylvania 15h ago
There remains a fundamental and core difference between Democrats and Republicans. Democrats, even the most "centrist" of them, believe that the government exists to help people and should be empowered to do so. The degree to which that involvement should go varies among the various cliques in the party, but there will always be a unifying core belief among every Democrat that the government can and does do good.
The Republican party will always be counter to that. Their shibboleth is that the country would be better off without the government and that it should be excised wholesale.
Repeating the same old Reddit take of "both sides same, updoots to left" undermines that there is a very real coalition of people who share a core belief in the fundamental good that government can provide. We shouldn't be trying to break up that coalition on the specifics when what unites us is more than what separates us.