• Candelestine@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Hate, as an emotion, is usually a feature of the extremes. Moderates are about compromise, even with things you hate. This is what you hate about them. They do not hate you though, they want to compromise with you.

    Your hate is one-way, it is not returned.

    edit: Wow, really unpopular. I’m serious though, moderates don’t hate you. They just don’t want to give you everything. They want to give all their constituent factions some things. Remember, compromise is a state where no party is perfectly happy, just, everyone gets something.

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      9 months ago

      This is the fundamental flaw with conceiving of politics as points on a line. “Moderates” aren’t actually in the middle of things. They are their own political philosophy. But it’s not as though you add communism and fascism together and divide by two and you get neoliberalism. They are all distinct philosophies.

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        Yeah there’s this push to equate “moderate” with “unbiased” and therefore above the fray of politics. But you’re spot on with your assessment.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah, and throwing in economic vs political classifications doesn’t simplify anything either.