Where, in the wider world, is the far left ascendant at all, aside from a Greece subjected to completely unreasonable punishment by centrist German banks?
My larger point is in discussing "populism" (rather than rise of far right) centrists like to avoid talking about a credibility vacuum created by migration crisis and financial crisis caused (partly in the former case, largely in the latter) by centrists.
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I'm saying that centrists like to pretend their recent failures haven't dramatically reordered (or created a desire to) certain aspects of society.
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Right. I would suggest that neither the Iraq War/subsequent ME chaos nor the bank crisis had much to do with liberal democracy, even those who pushed those policies claimed to believe in it. Lip service to those beliefs was one means of dodging accountability.
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I'm not contesting upholding democracy. I'm pointing out many so-called centrists claiming to be doing same are actually imposing anti-democratic policies that have blown up in spectacular fashion, which is one reason people have soured on liberal democracy.
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I'm not saying Nada is. I'm saying the urge to embrace centrism in opposition to polarization that is really abt rise of far right often serves as a crutch to avoid addressing centrist failures that created vacuum far right has filled.
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