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Nah, that's fake. The point of the Democrats isn't for the center right party to win. It's for the center right party to lose. Being center right is just a means to the end of losing. Because no matter how right wing they are, they won't be able to do as much damage as the neo Nazi party. And that's what the point is.

They're only shunning Mamdani performatively. It's sin signalling. They're doing it to be hated. They might win New York, and that's an acceptable sacrifice if it helps them lose the rest of the country.

People did vote for centrism in droves a generation ago. It just happens that the system currently is no longer benefiting the voting public, so they voting public will vote for change.

It's even worse than that. Very, very few people are actually centrists. Like, .1% of the population are probably true moderates.

The parties are coalitions representing people of varied opinions. And people rarely agree with the parties on every issue. But most people fall generally on one side or the other. However, some folks end up highly misaligned to the party issue assignments. For example, what party is the natural home for a militantly homophobic militant atheist? They think both priests and gay people should be sent to reeducation camps. Where do they belong?Neither party really. This person would consider themselves a centrist, even though they have nutjob fringe views from both the right and left. This is an extreme example, but it illustrates what most centrists actually are. They're not lobotomized zombies with no passion or beliefs. They have strong beliefs that simply don't align with the party coalitions.

But this reality is not how "centrist" politicians govern. Instead they try to place themselves at the exact center of every issue. Very very few human beings actually think that way. So they inevitably come across as highly inauthentic. People believe in things. If you try to walk the dead middle, you're telling people you believe in nothing. You become a living example of the uncanny valley. And people feel gross just listening to you.

Combining the two: centrists have bad vibes because they always have an authenticity problem. They position themselves against change, but then happily go where the Overton window takes them (see Biden's outgoing border bill). They are for nothing except what they think is popular at the moment, which is usually out of date information, and that comes across as fake and focused on accumulating power rather than solving problems. You don't need to be a policy wonk to see that centrists will say anything to get your vote and do nothing to solve your problems

It’s not hard to admit you’re wrong, unless you’re overly prideful.

She hasn't learned anything. She discovered that her vote is now going to affect her. If it weren't specifically for the Medicaid cuts, she wouldn't be showing any remorse and would still be hoping Trump will take care of her brown person problem. She hasn't admitted that she was wrong, she's finding out that actions have consequences.

Fuck her. She deserves to be shamed just like every other Trump voter. Remember when being pro Nazi got you in hot water because of the shame it brought? We need to get back to that.

Precisely. They figured out how to rake in billions of dollars through losing elections. All the money they raise, poof: gone! Gone to "strategists" and "consultants" and "advertising agencies" and all manner of other bullshit that are just legitimate-sounding names for fences who launder the money for them.

It's like the plot of The Producers:
"you can make more money with a flop than a hit!"

maybe my standards are just lower now because I still see idiots cheering trump as he is literally killing them and stealing their money so long as they think he is "owning the libs"

Trump promised he wouldn't cut Medicaid. The thing you should fault her with is that she still didn't get that Trump lies about everything after demonstrating that for his entire public life and an entire presidential administration.

Lol whoops. Thank you