Sargon Is Still A Centrist
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Don't be so small minded that you define politics purely in the terms of current western elites. That would disregard the majority of countries in the world and history. The center is where you frame it.
It's not centrist anywhere.
How many countries have policies of zero legal and illegal immigration right now? North Korea and Sentinel Island?
'Zero immigration' is not a centrist position and has not been widespread around the world in probably 500 years or more. It has never been the default.
Zero immigration is absolutely the centrist position. The far right position is to immediately execute any foreigner found on our soil. This was the policy of sengoku era Japan.
Edo Period. Sengoku had a Catholic infestation that threatened to cause a religious civil war on top of the political one currently occurring.
I mean, it has been the majority opinion of every prosperous nation since always, but our leaders have never cared about that.
I doubt a majority opinion across the world has ever been 'zero foreigners whatsoever'. But even if we stretch and assume it once was, the majority will always be against immigration because the majority are the poor and immigration almost always negatively effects the poor.
...But at basically nopoint in history was 'zero immigration' ever mainstream position adopted by rulers of lands. Those on top did not discover the benefits of allowing foreigners in yesterday. They have been doing it for longer than the written word has existed.
sentinel island's immigration policy is based.