The best is centrist, center left or center right, you hardly can tell the difference, it's centrism, everything is mild, a mere patch is the best you can expect from a centrist, and that's why centrists are universally not hated across the political chess board, precisely because they stand for no meaningful change in particular, some fringe radicals aside they fit with everything, even in an extremely polarized political chessboard, you still get those grey types floating around, you don't even know what's their purpose they're just there pushing papers essentially
Perfect cover for a "radical", anarchist...
You just make sure nothing will ever get solved by constantly favoring the "middle-ground" and half measures... And then one day, poof, the ship hits bottom...
If I ever run for office it will be as a centrist
Being a "hardcore democrat" or "hardcore republican" is the same thing as being centrist.
Both parties are working together. If you polarize far to one side, you're only feeding the drama and division they are cultivating.
If you ever ran for office you'd either 1) get murdered or 2) become a hardcore "republican/democrat" al la Trump, and do nothing but push the uni-party agenda, while further dividing the citizenry against themselves.
Edit: centrists are universally hated because they aren't heavily polarized to one side. They do not fervently fight to push a parties agenda, making them undesirable.
Can't we just have socialism and nationalism working hand in hand together for the grater good?
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Have you ever heard or even seen any of those guys https://pic8.co/sh/n20aDa.png
They're called "centrist-democrats" and they're perfect nobodies to me, never heard of them, never saw them on TV, nothing, ever
And yet here they are
And I'm not saying they're useful for anything
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