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One Wants to Protect People, the Other Wants to Preserve Freedom (2021) (zeit.de)
9 points by Tomte on July 6, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


The way they talk about the disappearing middle class is how I feel about political and social moderates in America.

The edges are so extreme that it's not really possible to have any productive discussions. And it's not nearly as small of a % of the population as I thought a few years ago.

It feels pretty lonely in the moderate middle nowadays.


What sort of moderate middle?

Democrats in USA are a right wing party. Republicans even more so.

The moderates are the progressive wing of democrats, a minority.

That republicans no longer want to cooperate with even a right wing party is telling, and that they paint it as some sort of socialist anti-freedom movement.


You are totally downvoted, but I agree. From a foreigner perspective there is only right and far right in the US.





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