My two penn'orth, FWIW. And apologies for the language, but tough shit. If rude words are what upset you rather than people suffering and dying, you need to have a long look in the mirror.
We cannot, ever, rely on centrists to protect us from the Far Right.
They are, frankly, so busy smelling their own farts about how just and righteous they are, about how thick anyone who doesn't agree with them is, and about how the answer to the existential crises that face humanity - endless war, climate catastrophe, persecution, starvation - is to tinker around the edges a bit so long as the system that keeps them in Range Rovers is maintained, that they are incapable of even recognising the suffering of millions of ordinary people, much less doing anything about it.
We can see what has been happening in France, in the US, and blame the Far Right and Russian interference and the internet all we like. But Far Right parties have no qualms in lying to people about how good they will make their lives, if only they could get rid of the people who are not like them who are a drain on national finances.
And because centrists need to protect the putrid status quo on behalf of their corporate vampire sponsors, as we can see with Starmer and Macron, and the Harris campaign, instead of challenging the very worst racist, misogynist, ableist language head on, and changing the divisive anti-life rhetoric, they lean in to it, genuinely believing that they can win round extremists to their side if only they were a bit more extreme and divisive themselves.
We can also see from the examples in France with Melenchon and the UK with Corbyn that centrists will move heaven and earth, working hand-in-hand with the Far Right and enlisting their client journalists in their battle, to fuck over any politician, and any political movement, that threatens that status quo from the humanitarian Left.
I do not believe we can rely on the political system to help any of us. I said a while ago, the choice offered in the US election was a president who would fuck his own country or a president who would fuck the rest of the world. Looks like they chose the former. No amount of rattling on about "dark warnings" from centrists is going to matter now.
The only way forward for ordinary people is to look out for each other now, ignoring centralised politics, ignoring the Westminster bubble media. Let them keep sniffing their own farts, while we take on the mantle, at a local level, of looking after our neighbours, friends and families, and building resiliant systems on a micro level to protect them.
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