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This is why I say we should give no quarter to “centrists”. It’s just a convenient location for liberals to run to when they get any pushback.
A former friend called himself a "moderate".
Yet this moderate supports abortion, affirmative action, gun control and pushing diversity.
He only has leftist views but he likes to masquerade around as a "moderate".
A lot of centrists these days are leftists wearing a mask.
I doubt there are many real centrists out there.
Or, alternately, it's an attempt to colonise the centre ground, to lay claim to all the political discourse.
Tell me they're not above that.
This way they can more easily claim moderate views are 'far right', makes sense to me.
The left has no lows they won't stoop to.
What you propose is not implausible.
I consider myself to be centrist. I do so because I tend to fall in the middle on most polarising issues.
For example:
In summary, I consider myself centrist because there are issues where I am somewhat more left leaning, while there are other issues I am more right leaning on. For others, I am somewhere in the middle. The issues above are just whatever examples I could come up with while having my morning coffee.
Congrats you got some truly centrist positions.
You say you value free speech, gun rights, meritocracy, and don't want major globalists corporations running our lives. That alone makes you someone I can find common ground with.
However if you were in the United States, the current Democrats here would viciously label you as far right for not parroting their pushing of socialism, anti-white propaganda, mass late term abortions and tranny bullshit in schools.
Your positions are hilariously similar to President Trump's policy positions. He is essentially a centrist populist in terms of most of his policies. Guess what they call him?
I support abortion because I consider a dead foetus a preferable alternative to an impoverished, neglected child that grows up to be a maladjusted junkie thug. I don't consider either option to be desirable, but I know which I prefer.
I support it based on income and assets, and oppose it based on race.
Really difficult in the context of the US. There are so many guns in circulation that any gun ban is going to empower criminals. If you're going to do this you need to seriously incentivize criminals to NOT carry guns ie: by making them a serious sentence multiplier. On top of this, I recognize that cities and rural areas are incredibly different. In a city, you can scream and your neighbours will hear you. In rural areas, a gun is your only realistic hope.
If you have to 'push' it, its probably because nobody wants it.
You assume criminals are capable of abstract thinking. Prison time doesn't scare them, much less more prison time, because they can't even think a week ahead, much less a 30-year to lifetime sentence.
Criminals, however, are scared of getting shot mid-crime, because that shit's instant and it fucking hurts immediately. Survivors that don't learn the first time will quickly Darwin themselves out of the gene pool.
Bystander syndrome is a thing, you know, to the point where first responders have to teach people to scream "YOU! CALL 911!" at a specific person instead of "HELP ME! SOMEONE! PLEASE!" People won't do shit unless it's a direct command because they'll assume someone else will help instead.
"Center" usually describes the center of the Overton window. When the left keeps pushing it left, it's only natural that "center" moves leftwards to match.
Its really hard to grasp centrism when one side is so openly unfathomably monstrous compared to the other (in terms of power).
Its just a cheap way for people to be lazy and avoid labels because they are terrified.
I’m a centrist. I hold the belief the government has no right to tell people what to do and not to do in their bedrooms hobbies or anywhere or anything that doesn’t impede another’s inherent rights. I also believe entering the US illegally should be a capital offense in which the execution is carried out via crucifixion along the tops of a border wall. Centrist truly means holds opinions and ideas from both sides it’s been warped to be a shield for infiltrating progressives.
Centrists are not people you should avoid giving quarter to. They're just ignorant and taking 'safe' positions.