Far-left definitely isn't that - "we're gonna make sure everyone's needs are met" is literally a general leftist thing. Assuming you're trying to portray tankies and fascists, a more accurate depiction would be "we're gonna make sure working class needs are met with an iron fist and extermination of anyone potentially rebellious".

That being said, holy shit there are so many bad takes in this thread

Right-wing in-group: "So long as you be just like us in every way and fall in line, you will be accepted. Sort of."

Left-wing in-group: "So long as you're not an asshole, we don't care what you believe or do."

Right-wing out-group: Anyone not like them.

Left-wing out-group: Anyone who is an asshole.

Good message overall, but man what a terrible choice to depict the left

Bolsheviks literally exterminated entire social groups because they believed they were impure. Calling people "kulaks" and such.

They also deported (as in half dying in the way) to Siberia whole peoples, like Chechens and Ingushs.

Also some peoples by ethnicity alone were deemed suspicious in certain parts of USSR and forcefully moved from there. That's how there are very few Greeks in Crimea.

And you have those hammer and sickle on the "far left" pic.

Yes, they certainly made sure everybody's needs were met during the Holodomor.

I think people who've enjoyed years under communist governments might disagree a little about the comparison here.

Both sides have fine people, except for those God damn commies who want to open the border and give all of the people houses, food, education, and healthcare.

I am an actual centrist and not a caricature. These memes constantly portray us as morons who think "both sides are equal" which is honestly just more inflammatory tribalism which makes it easier to villainize everyone who isn't in your in group. Its the ultimate strawman, and its somehow super effect, since any time I try to make this point I'm downvoted into the floor. I can recognize the flaws in both sides and make informed decisions. Just because I don't wave your fucking banner doesn't mean I'm on the other side it means I vote with my brain instead of blind allegiance.

The problem is that stupid hard left - hard right tribalism is destroying the country. We will NEVER see the changes we want in this country if we are too busy villainizing each other, all that does is push us farther left/right.

If you want real change you should be pushing not for your fairy tale extreme right or extreme left America, push for the first step towards cohesion, we need to overhaul our voting system to ranked choice, this would allow us to have more than 2 parties. So we can get actual hard left, left, center, right, hard right candidates. This will allow us to have parties that truly help our country, and actually represent the people in us. It will curtail extreme political ideologies by allowing, what is a significantly small but loud portion of our population to flounder and die on the ends of the spectrum, and get more common sense political parties into power. Sadly this will never happen, because we have become too good at forcing significant portions of the country into fighting each other versus changing the system.

All of this being said its super clear in this specific election there is only 1 side not trying to steer us off of a cliff. But that isn't the point, the point is we need to come together somehow to fix this broken 2 party system before it destroys the country. I don't feel properly represented, do you?

Lol. Had to depict the left with hammer and sickle-- a communist symbol. And it isn't like the communists are constitent on LGBT rights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism_and_LGBT_rights?wprov=sfla1

Centrists are the real communists. They just want everyone to come together and hug it out.

This is literally the bravest and most important thing I've seen all week. Bravo OP, you've convinced me

Exterminate social groups!?!?!? The far left would never do that to the kulaks, ukrainians, perceived ideological opponents, jews, political opponents, poles, and a quarter of Cambodia, ever.

It's more often the far left I see rejecting the centrist candidates and thereby ironically helping the right wing because they refuse to comprehend the difference between right wing "exterminate everyone" and centrist "how about maybe don't do that though".

All these arguments about left is this, right is that, no one can tell which is what...

It's almost as if just one axis can't describe the unending variety of beliefs people have. I'm sure one day we'll find a way to describe all those permutations of values everyone holds so dear in just one axis going left to right. Yes. Then the tribes will be clearly defined!

I always see memes aimed at centrists to be smug and disingenuous.

Evaluating groups based on their goals rather than their methods is a problem. The Far Left wants everyone's needs met, but historically (and even today in places like China) end up putting a bunch of people in camps and gulags to achieve that goal, squashing dissents to meet that goal, and banning the practicing of religions to meet that goal, kill political dissidents to meet that goal.

If the Left wants to win those Centrists they need to assert their belief in individual rights; they need to disavow the Socialists and Communists of the past and present who implemented those horrible things. When you have prominent American leftists like Bernie on record praising Venezuela; praising the USSR etc... it makes them appear equivalent.

~~centrist~~ -> far liberal, there I fixed it for you. I hate that stupid centrist word which makes them sound like reasonable people. Deregulation, globalization, privatization of public services, these all have brutal consequences on many people. Selling that as a compromise or a status quo is just an advertising stunt.