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Im still not entirely sure who the centre-right are in this context. Like, in a global sense Obama is centre-right, as are a whole host of Democrats. Even if you just look at America, how often have the Republicans had a moderate leadership? Isnt Romney in 2012 the only time they went with the moderate option since the 1960s, and thats Mitt Romney, not exactly a bastion of centrism. You can contrast that with the Democrats who give you centre-right candidate after centre-right candidate. If youre centre-right you should be very at home with the Dems surely!

Like, lets look at the Labour stuff I was talking about. Starmer took some heat from shifting focus from the left-wing platform he won the leadership on, but his current platform still wants stuff like free tuition, banning zero hour contracts, rail and water nationalisation, a supertax on energy company profits spent on discounting peoples bills, a green new deal and so on which is all either at the leftmost fringes of the Democratic Party or stuff the progressives wouldnt even dream of. Like, can you imagine if a Democratic candidate went hey, all those water companies are now owned by the state? Theyd be called a communist even though its a mainstream stance outside of the US, it just goes to show the discrepancy.