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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Republicans: block basically every attempt at social goods making their way into public hands

Centrists: "Bro why are democrats ass at governing"

[–] Fried_out_Kombi 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Granted, I think there are certain things Dems suck balls at governing in. But that stuff is largely at the local level in progressive cities where Dems easily hold the power.

Local Dem governments tend to be infested with NIMBYs and everything bagel liberalism, which ends up exacerbating the housing crisis and everything that comes along with that. As an example, look at the NIMBY rat nest that is San Francisco politics. Not that Repubs are better locally, either; they also tend to be infested with NIMBYs, on top of all the usual GOP malarkey.

All that to say Dems are almost universally better than GOP at state and federal level, but you really gotta go on a candidate-by-candidate basis amongst Dems at the local level. Many are great, while many others are hot NIMBY garbage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Right on the money tbh

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Centrists: “Bro why are all these old people ass at governing” FIFY

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's definitely not the argument I see centrists making, maybe occasionally. But then again most people are tired of old fuckers in office