“We will control the Horizontal. We will control the Vertical…. Another Dimension.” -Dimension X by Seven Red Seven The dissident center is not an organized movement but rather a big tent of syncretic politics. I propose a new Alt-Center that has core political principles, a philosophical framework, and unique attributes beyond mismatching positions from the dissident left and right. The objective is to build a serious political foundation that can unite various groups that are politically homeless or at odds with the left, right, and mainstream center. A hypothetical Alt-Centrist might oppose gun-control, cancel culture, open-borders and interventionism while supporting drug legalization, free health care and anti-trust legislation, but the concept goes beyond just taking anti-establishment positions from both the left and right. There must be strong stances and principles that are unique.
Pan-Enclavism & True Freedom are exciting ideas but how would they be applied to age old problems such as law & order, water rights, education, and so forth? Even if California were a nation state today, life could get complicated (and conflicted) very quickly without a shared value system, infrastructure, and legal framework.
The idea of alt-centrism occurred to me to, but I took it in a pretty different direction.
For me it's an acceptance that many of the right's diagnoses about how badly we're doing are right, but their prescriptions are terrible.
Anyway, I'd be interested in any thoughts. I wrote some of it up here
https://clubtroppo.com.au/2022/03/06/will-you-join-me-in-the-alt-centre/
There's a bit of a branding issue:
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alt-center
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alt-center
to bo honest new alt center could be read more as political region, not the brand
like fascism and Marxism are far right /left, but their brand is a bit different
Pan-Enclavism & True Freedom are exciting ideas but how would they be applied to age old problems such as law & order, water rights, education, and so forth? Even if California were a nation state today, life could get complicated (and conflicted) very quickly without a shared value system, infrastructure, and legal framework.