I believe this is comparing the US to the Empire

Hell yeah

Property. Wealth.

where you had to choose between a bad and a worse option?

Sure but just as often the choice is between good, bad, and worse and people are looking at bad like good doesn’t exist

You’re acting like Barn Raising is new or radical. Ya didn’t use to need to go into a lifetime of debt so bankers could live in luxury, the whole village would pitch in, get together and build a house for you.

The trolley problem typically illustrates how easy the choice is. Like in this case: Sacrifice no people so elites can live in luxury, sacrifice some people so elites can live in luxury, or sacrifice alot of people so elites can live in greater luxury. The obvious answer is sacrifice no people because elites living in luxury is of no benefit to anyone but the elites and if they didn’t live in luxury they would still get their needs met.

You’re NOT reducing harm, you’re steadily increasing harm when most of our problems could be easily solved by ending harm.

The unreasonable part is the US setting up a system that makes immigration illegal but encourages it so that farmers can have a cheap supply of exploitable labor then deporting said immigrants so politicians can use fear of “the other” to manipulate voters and appeal to bigots. Farm workers use to come to the US for the harvest, get paid, and go home. Now getting here is so much work it’s only worth it if you stay longer then one season.

And that’s ignoring the fact that the political and economic uncertainty that drives people to immigrate here in the first place is constantly the result of actions made by the US.

Not that I believe in any of that. Borders exist to limit the power of states, not the movement of people.

People who believe in Liberal Democracy (like Biden and Obama) typically occupy the political center.

The problem with Centrists is that they have similar sensibilities as the Left but not the convictions. Neither wants to see homeless people suffer on the streets but Centrists are content with blowing smoke up their own ass (out of sight out of mind) while the Left will insist on providing housing.

The bar that almost every Leftist expects you to pass is “exploiting people is wrong” which is an easy fucking purity test if you’re not a sociopath.

It appears this is a Centrists are Right Wingers in sheeps clothing post. The opposite of “don’t look at what the right’s doing”.

Centrism is a myth, it’s right wing for people too afraid to call themselves as such.

That’s self-identified “Centrists” in the US who inhabit somewhere in the middle of the Overton window. Centrism in less relative terms is generally Liberals and they range from Center Left to Center Right.

“Come on, guys, sacrificing some people in our society so we can have rich people is better than sacrificing alot of people in our society so we can have filthy stinking rich people!”