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kpete

(71,991 posts) Mon Feb 21, 2022, 02:54 PM Feb 2022

Meet in the middle?

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Meet in the middle? (Original Post) kpete Feb 2022 OP

Yup- that's why centrists are not to be taken seriously. Fiendish Thingy Feb 2022 #1

Fiendish Thingy

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1. Yup- that's why centrists are not to be taken seriously.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Feb 21, 2022, 04:41 PM

Feb 2022

Because the definition of “Center” is ever shifting, and largely a media construct.

Many positions considered in the “Center” by some would have been moderately conservative 50 years ago.

Note: Centrist and Moderate are not synonyms. Centrism is largely performative, rather than ideological.

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