ImFresh3x , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

I think it really depends on who you’re taking about when you say centrist.

“Gays have gone too far. Now they want to get married. I’m not against gays, but marriage is between a man and a woman” was/is a despicable “centrist” position.

“I’m not sure student loans forgiveness is the best long term solution to education costs. I think ideally those trillions of dollars would be between spent on building schools, but it’s better than nothing” was/is common “centrist” position I don’t agree with but doesn’t bother me much.

It seems like there’s at least two definitions of centrist.

People who equate both parties policies at every turn are centrists in my mind.

In the mind of many others in the left, anyone slightly right of Sanders is a centrist. And I think that’s an entirely different definition.

The definitions are so opposed to each other that two people using the same word can be talking about something completely different.