It’s not like centrism is the only problem.
The right are the dominant belligerents waging war against their own existence, and therefore against ours too.
The left (like me) are not that much less delusional but the key difference is a willingness to pursue change and, in theory at least, pro-social notions of how to go about it
…But it’s not hard to see where the collective inertia overwhelmingly takes us.
It takes us to the far right hand end of the Möbius strip below
…Which means people like me getting out of their comfort zone and getting to know my immediate community *really well*.
Because when things fall apart, no amount of prepped tinned goods will save us. But people we disagree with might
@kbm0 I think we fetishise voting. It *is* important. I *always* vote.
But the primary role of institutionalised governance is maintenance of the status quo. Its dominant impulse is a ‘centrist’ one, structurally as opposed to politically
@urlyman You have mentioned one of the problems there, that there is a lot of non-vote bandwidth involved in the political process, ie lobbying in various forms. That's not democracy, so if we want democracy to be a thing then we need to eliminate such inputs.
I might add nevertheless that in these times of rightwing extremism I would value the centrist aspects of our democratic model. But I don't see them much in evidence. I sometimes think that the "centre" is determined by lobbyists too.
@kbm0 Same.
If we have solutions to our predicament I think they mostly lie in sidelining/sidestepping money.
Which is a helluva challenge
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