USA has a left. They almost never win at the ballot box, though. You have to find them in the streets.

You don't have a right either though, at least not a right on the democratic spectrum.

All you've got are "unacceptable" and "fascism".

This. Republicans and Democrats have been moving steadily to the right for the last 40 years. So now, Democrats are where Republicans were in the 1980s: boring corporatists who are best friends of banks, insurance and pharmaceutical companies. We haven't had a real progressive president since Jimmy Carter and that was 50 years ago.

Meanwhile, the right has moved all the way into an insane asylum. Their best friends are Russian oligarchs, fascists, religious nutjobs and civil war re-enactors, who communicate on Twitter and "Truth Social" and call themselves "Republicans."

"If we just improve the education system, racism will go away." - My centrist friend

Bro, no. Also, who the fuck do you think is trying to fund education? Assuming we even accept your premise.

Implied by this: centrists see all this mainly as a financial matter.

This is actually the platform of the Democratic Party.

In the US at least, the entire country is so far right that the position above is actually far left in our political sphere.

The 'far left' described in that tweet is the 'center right' in Norway. USA politics feels weird and alien to Europeans.

we are going to exterminate all the rich

Only edgy teens on social media genuinely think this is a logical political goal you should advocate for in the first world on this day and age

then give their stuff to everyone else

If you change this to: "concentration of private property in few hands is a poisonous hydra that will forever feed inequality", then yes, that's a milquetoast far left take, which often comes from the desire of actually "getting everyone's needs met" and the idea that capitalism naturally organizes the economy in a way that disincentives letting a portion of the working class being comfortably capable of getting all their needs met.

And honestly, given the positions of most politicians on actually doing something to make housing affordable, I honestly think "getting everyone's needs met" is becoming a far left position.

Depends on what you mean by "far." If you mean believing in a radical restructuring of society along Communist lines, this can be done peacefully. Pacifism is an extremist position as well. Conflating "radicalism" with "violence" is just centrism at work.

On the same hand, there are extremely violent centrists. Kissinger murdered millions of people as a liberal, for example, which is a center-right ideology. Centrism isn't about non-violence.

It works. They know that banning abortions just drives abortion into back alleys, the point is they need that sort of autonomy in women to be effectively criminalized in order to regain the kind of control they had over women's bodies back when the boomers were still teenagers. They know abstinence-only teaching doesn't prevent unwanted pregnancy, they don't care and they want criminalizing abortion to be socially acceptable again.

They understand that the people demanding 'election integrity' are just using those words to make their real project- winning power despite having unpopular policy options on offer- seem respectable.

It doesn't matter that you're saying things too stupid for people to believe, the stupid ones will believe it anyways and the evil ones will use the stupid people to make civil politics uncivil

Centrists are right wing afraid to call themselves right wing.

Conservatives:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nazis-mingle-openly-cpac-spreading-antisemitic-conspiracy-theories-fin-rcna140335

https://www.tahlequahdailypress.com/news/senator-calls-lgbtq-oklahomans-filth-says-constituents-dont-want-them/article_c8979398-d260-11ee-9823-973bf20c3730.html

Liberals: "no nazis or bigots. We want fair pay and basic human rights"

Wow, it's so hard to see the difference.