• kameecoding@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    In the mind of many others in the left, anyone slightly right of Sanders is a centrist. And I think that’s an entirely different definition.

    they are in Europe.

    also both centrist takes are stupid that you described.

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      1 year ago

      The Overton window is a sliding scale.

      And ya, both takes are hard to agree with, but one enables the trampling of civil rights, while the other simply has a separate view of how to use finite resources to solve a fiscal problem.

      Anyone who equates those two takes os also quite “stupid.” Equating those two is a much worse take than the take about student loans forgiveness maybe not being the best way to address a national problem effecting hundreds of millions of citizens, that decades of neglect and misappropriation of tax funds created.

      Also, Considering Biden is getting student loan forgiveness done, while sanders has not, the group that equates both parties, or moans at anyone left of sanders is doing the service of the centrist agenda, and in turn the right wing agenda.

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        1 year ago

        Considering Biden is getting student loan forgiveness done, while sanders has not

        Sanders is the chair of the committee in charge of student loans. He is also not the president.

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          Exactly. He’s not the president. And the person who is is getting the job done. Because sanders was not able to turn his candidacy into affect. And the Democratic Party “elites” put sanders in the role that he currently holds.

          The two parties aren’t the same. Nuance about how to deal with the educational crisis of cost is not the enemy. Decades of neglecting education entirely is.

          Btw: just so we are avoiding history revisionism. Student load forgiveness is being handled by the executive branch. Not the senate.