Resist: It's Time

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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."

The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.

The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.

It's time.

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The Left Isn’t the Cult: MAGA Just Needs It to Be (therationalleague.substack.com)

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The Comfort of False Equivalence
There’s a seductive kind of cowardice masquerading as wisdom in modern discourse: the insistence that all extremes are created equal. It’s what allows the centrist to shrug and say, “Well, both sides are dangerous,” as though morality and method exist on a balanced scale, and history is simply a record of shared mistakes. For MAGA, this rhetorical laziness isn’t just useful. It’s strategic.

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[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The party generally sits on the center-left of the American political spectrum.

Emphasis mine.

This is where having broader knowledge is useful in making comparisons. The American Overton Window has been ratcheted so far to the right that a center-right party appears center left as actual progressive/leftist politics are considered ridiculous by the population. Your Bernie Sanders is barely left but he's referred to by many as an extremist.

Consider what center-left looks like in Iran. It's certainly much farther right than the equivalent in the US.

[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Did you read the rest of my comment? What happens in other countries doesn't relate to American politics and even in these "left" countries you speak of they are also having their Overton windows shift right. Europe isn't some leftist utopia.