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[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

i've actually been thinking this recently. what actually is a centrist? i feel most who claim themselves to be centrist are actually conservatives...

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

There's an old joke. The parties change but the message stays the same.

A group of Nazis have cornered a group socialists when a centrist comes along. The centrist listens to both sides, how the Nazis want to kill all the socialists and how the socialists don't want to die. Thinking long and hard on it, the centrist says that there's a compromise to be had, just kill half.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I would say a true centrist is nothing. No beliefs on whether the means of production should be held by private companies or the people. Aka, they either cannot exist or have not formed an opinion on it making it so that their opinion wouldn't matter.

The problem therein lies that we try to tie other things into it that aren't about government, and instead about human rights, and it clearly diverts from being a line to a multi dimensional graph that all means next to nothing when it comes to claims like left right.

Both someone on the left and the right can want to subjugate parts of the populous without having to leave their belief on who owns the means of production.