Why do "Centrists" always seem to favor conservatives, rather than progressives? [View all]

[ProfessorPlum]

I found this interesting little essay about, among other things, why Steve Bannon of all people had been invited to The New Yorker's festival.

http://www.ianwelsh.net/why-did-the-new-yorker-want-steve-bannon-to-headline-their-festival/

All of this is stuff that centrists can live with. High executive compensation, pro-corporate policies, keeping unions and the left down.

...

So the bottom line is that centrists are ok with fascists because fascists are pro-corporate and executive wealth.

...

On the other hand, the left wing is hostile to large corporations and high executive compensation. At the least the left would highly regulate corporations and break many of them up, while slapping on c.90% marginal tax rates and punitive estate taxes.

...

Left-wingers are an existential threat to centrists because centrists are, substantially, supporters of the status quo. How America and the world is (or was before Trump) is essentially good to them. The parts of the status quo that right wingers want to overthrow don’t hurt centrists. The parts of the status quo that left wingers want to overthrow do.

I've seen this kind of thinking over and over again on the part of "centrists", like every time Michael Bloomberg thinks he wants to start a third party. This kind of thinking is rife in the media as well. These people aren't hard right ideologues. Just economic beneficiaries of the status quo.