Do you not already know what happens when after a regime change the new one decides to do all the fucked up shit the last one did, but to the opposite group of people?

And… there it is. That statement betrays exactly what you think of progressives and socialists.

What you don’t get, or don’t want to get, is that there are three political philosophies at play here, and every one of them has it’s radicals and moderates. There is conservatism, neoliberalism, and progressivism.

You think neoliberalism is defined as the “center” between conservatives and progressives, but it’s absolutely just as possible to be a radical neoliberal as a radical progressive. In fact, the people running the Democratic party are hardcore radical neoliberals. They pretend to be conservative or progressive when it suits them, but they are neoliberal to the core. They are just as capable of doing “all the fucked up shit” to their opposition, and have in fact been doing it consistently for 50 years now.

Progressives get a the tip of a toe in the door, and out you come to sound the alarm that we’re going to take over the place and, what, start deporting Republicans?

You aren’t the centrist you think you are, and you are just another enemy to progressives.