I really feel like more people need to constructively engage with this! You can think the moderation/centrism discourse is often braindead (as I do!) but the center left really needs a pretty robust convo about what winning, say, an Iowa or Kansas or Texas or Ohio senate seat would look like.
It’s because of the senate map
The argument is just… what does moderation even mean? Be crueler to people who can’t punch back? That’s both cowardly loser shit and will also actively repel most people. They’re speaking in vagaries to mask that there are no real ideas, just the Racism Dial.
Like what do they actually mean? It is important when people say “moderate” they say what they mean. Because every time it reminds me of this.
May 14, 2025 00:18There’s no such thing as “moderation” or “compromise” when the “other side” is the extreme right. Their entire platform is that human rights are negotiable. Are you going to negotiate about who gets to keep human rights and who doesn’t?
It’s fair especially right now in a world with only maga republicans. A moderate should be someone who wants progress but to do it slow enough that it doesn’t cause great upheaval; that mistakes can be fixed when the impact isn’t so large. I think that’s a decent stance even though I’m further left.
