Love this post on Facebook. Basically it’s about moving the Overton window by redefining what’s centrist versus radical left.
“Going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing my leftist views as proof …” the post from Maura Quint on BlueSky starts out.
(I’m not actually on blue sky, but a lot of people on Facebook are cross-sharing across platforms these days. It’s a great thing. Amplifying wholesome ideas.)
My version for example: “I’m just into those centrist ideas such as healthcare for all, abolishing prisons, ICE, and wars, guaranteeing food and basic housing for everyone…”
Great idea! And this is also giving me ideas regarding my environmental/climate action communication.
“I’m just a very mild, middle-of-the-road when it comes to practicing water conservation, household thrift, retrofitting a basic urban dwelling to be free of dependency on electricity and city water (while still being fully on grid and supporting the grid), mutual aid, and basic Degrowth principles, land back, decolonization, & all that basic middle-of-the road stuff …”
Too many people tell me I’m the most radical environmentalist they know. They need to meet lots more people! I keep sharing the pages of those “lots more people”!
I guess I also need to publicly promote myself as a very mild centrist sort of eco-social activist.