Work Reform

A lot of centrists, are frankly, kind of weak minded. A lot are not necessarily more right leaning but they don't exactly have strong conviction. A friend of mine is right leaning on immigration and economics but at the same time he voted for the social democrats in his country because of over a decade of right wing government and supports Palestine. Some are centrists for the sake of being centrist it seems.

The problem as to why many centrists sound right leaning is because the right captured prominent media platforms, and a huge part of its audience are lonely folks who are susceptible to misinformation, which my friend falls into. Many don't become firmly on right but that doesn't matter for the right wing billionaires funding the media platforms. It's about sowing enough doubt to prevent forming a united front against the billionaire-Epstein class.

American 2 party system is so fucked that anything left of rabid, far right fascism is considered far left

From the 20th century, we have the ideological war against USSR to thank for that. It started all the way back with Wilson. After WWII, the threat of nuclear annihilation was a powerful tool for nationalism. (I'd learn only recently that a first strike was far more likely to come from US than USSR, and we had some dangerous war hawks in power.)

Before that, after reconstruction came redemption and corporate interests took over both parties.

Before that, roads, schools, bridges, libraries and such were socialism giving the working man benefits to which they didn't contribute (we just contributed all the labor). Yes, they called it socialism even back in the 19th century.

Do observe that adherence to neoliberalism in the EU (which is essentially corporatism with extra steps) is driving the rise of far right movements even over there. And when the tech-bros and white Christian nationalists over here are done bleeding the US dry like its private equity, they'll be headed over there with their vast wealth to do the same thing.

We don't have a large, cohesive, left party. There are people who are certainly left in the USA, but we have no real representation out of a handful of congress people.

Americans think universal healthcare is leftist.

Yeah, radical left is more like: Seize the means of production! Abolish capitalism! Abolish patriarchy! Abolish the state!

What's labelled as radical left in the OP is just bare minimum, common sense policies that any marginally sane person should want.

But not these ones, better ones.

Just enough to kill the untermenchen and keep people from objecting to my atrocities where I can hear. That's such a reasonable thing I don't know why they're complaining there are too many.

Social workers? Yes. Police as we know them? Nope. Proper education and mental health services will solve 99% of the problems. Most crime is unresolved personal issues and taking care of people will take care of the problems.

Centrists: Let's meet in the middle and dismantle half of elections, eh?