#centerism

[thoughtportal]

[protoslacker]

The campaigns that Sens. Eugene McCarthy and Robert F. Kennedy waged against President Lyndon Johnson in 1968 redefined the Democrats for decades going forward, and produced a generation of political operatives who subsequently steered numerous Democratic leaders to electoral victory. Those challenges, of course, grew out of the deep divisions over Johnson’s handling of the Vietnam War. Today, the Democrats are redefining themselves again, and, now as then, not always to the party establishment’s liking. In 1968, however, while the party establishment strongly opposed those challenges, it didn’t enact any new rules — much less blacklists — to suppress them. That was the right decision then. It would be the right decision now.

Harold Meyerson in The American Prospect. House Democrats Play Dirty to Shut Out Progressive New Voices

The new rule against primary challenges is meant to tilt the party more towards the center.

[welcometoyouredoom]

Centrism is an ideology that holds that picking the central position between two opposing groups is always the ideal position; however, that could only hold true if both opposing groups held equally acceptable positions.

[violet-the-twitching-nothing]

[that-bitch-abbi-lynne]

If over half of congress was full of racist pieces of shit screaming the n word and introducing bills to restrict everyone’s rights, moderates and centrists would go “well we need to hear them out”

[tezla7]

[protoslacker]

During an interview that aired Sunday on "60 Minutes," CBS's Lesley Stahl began a question to Pelosi, saying, "You have these wings -- AOC, and her group on one side--" "That's, like, five people," Pelosi replied. Stahl said that "the progressive group is more than five," to which Pelosi responded, "Well, the progressive -- I'm a progressive. Yeah."

Caroline Kelly at WENY News. Pelosi calls AOC's progressive wing 'like, five people'