Someone that believes the middle of a political spectrum is the difference between the two most popular sides, regardless of those sides positions in the actual political spectrum; i.e. someone that believes liberals and conservatives should work together and compromise in order to not be too left or too right, despite both of those ideologies being inherently far right wing.
I.e. “let’s listen to what Nazis have to say and give them a place in government”
I’ve actually never met anyone like this. I think people on social media want a binary so they simplify all opinions into fascism vs antifascism and then point and laugh at those who try to bring the details back into the discussion. They claim that centrists are somehow “splitting the difference” between fascism and antifascism.
It’s so illogical I can’t help but rule it out when trying to understand someone’s train of thought.
Its really stupid. We need to work together in a country anyways to accomplish anything meaningful. While I don’t think the label far left is fit for dems I think this us vs them mentality definitely makes for a less constructive discussion
You have, you’re on a reddit clone. Reddit, especially r/politics is centrism defined, including the ever rightward shift it has taken that follows the natural path of centrism.
Centrism is the range of political ideologies that exist between left-wing politics and right-wing politics on the left–right political spectrum. It is associated with moderate politics, including people who strongly support moderate policies and people who are not strongly aligned with left-wing or right-wing policies.
The issues described in the comic/thread is that when you have one ‘extreme’ calling for the removal of rights/the lives of one group, and their opposite ‘extreme’ is calling to not do that, Centrists ask for some middle ground that cannot exist. You call the top right panel a ridiculous strawman, but go into any thread about immigration, women’s rights, etc, and you will see (slightly less hyperbolic most of the time) comments that line up with that panel. What’s the Centrist reaction to abortion bans? Partial bans. So all the Right has to do is ask for the entirety of something (abortion ban, force striking workers back to work, etc) and Centrists will give them part of what they want.
Centrists are people who prefer not to artificially simplify problems before coming up with a solution. Top right panel is a ridiculous strawman
That is literally the exact opposite of centrists.
Can you describe what a centrist is? It sounds like you might just be talking about undecided voters
Someone that believes the middle of a political spectrum is the difference between the two most popular sides, regardless of those sides positions in the actual political spectrum; i.e. someone that believes liberals and conservatives should work together and compromise in order to not be too left or too right, despite both of those ideologies being inherently far right wing.
I.e. “let’s listen to what Nazis have to say and give them a place in government”
I’ve actually never met anyone like this. I think people on social media want a binary so they simplify all opinions into fascism vs antifascism and then point and laugh at those who try to bring the details back into the discussion. They claim that centrists are somehow “splitting the difference” between fascism and antifascism.
It’s so illogical I can’t help but rule it out when trying to understand someone’s train of thought.
Its really stupid. We need to work together in a country anyways to accomplish anything meaningful. While I don’t think the label far left is fit for dems I think this us vs them mentality definitely makes for a less constructive discussion
You have, you’re on a reddit clone. Reddit, especially r/politics is centrism defined, including the ever rightward shift it has taken that follows the natural path of centrism.
Centrism is the range of political ideologies that exist between left-wing politics and right-wing politics on the left–right political spectrum. It is associated with moderate politics, including people who strongly support moderate policies and people who are not strongly aligned with left-wing or right-wing policies.
The issues described in the comic/thread is that when you have one ‘extreme’ calling for the removal of rights/the lives of one group, and their opposite ‘extreme’ is calling to not do that, Centrists ask for some middle ground that cannot exist. You call the top right panel a ridiculous strawman, but go into any thread about immigration, women’s rights, etc, and you will see (slightly less hyperbolic most of the time) comments that line up with that panel. What’s the Centrist reaction to abortion bans? Partial bans. So all the Right has to do is ask for the entirety of something (abortion ban, force striking workers back to work, etc) and Centrists will give them part of what they want.