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Many people claiming to be "independents" or "centrists" are just lying. They are temporarily embarrassed conservatives, usually.
🤔 what happened to Enlightened Centrism / Both Sides btw?
There were whole subs that professed to be earnest about it, and others that ridiculed it.
But being openly nazi is perfectly fine nowadays, there's no reason to obfuscate one's true opinions anymore.
Nailed it.
Can you make one that's "progressives vocally against Democrats in an election year" on the top and "right wing agitators" on the bottom?
https://imgflip.com/i/b2pdv2
thank you for your service
I'd take credit for making this one, but alas its one that I found!
New to me. Thanks, regardless!
I hear this all the time and it bears repeating that Independent doesn't mean centrist, unless you lump anarchists in with the Dems.
I think it's less that they are lying, and more that their lived experiences and indoctrination had led them to believe the center is further right than you.
All I have to say is that towards the end of W's second failed term, there was a sudden uptick in people claiming "I'm an independent".
Including people that up until just a short while earlier had Bush/Cheney stickers on their cars...
Most "Independents" are like Libertarians.
Republicans who want to do all the republican shit, and push all the republican hatred, but don't want to carry the social burden of being associated with Republicanism.