I'm a centrist. And it has nothing to do with my political views

[kurtcagle]

4. Centrism is actually what democracy is all about

In statistics theory, the center is that point where political beliefs are balanced - if you put people who espouse a particular belief somewhere on a line, the mean (or center) will be where you will satisfy the largest number of people for that belief. This is one of the reasons that majority rule works, while minority rule usually produces gross inequity in the system over a long enough period.

Minority-rule people do not like to admit that the center changes because they typically work on the notion of the elect: because they are part of an elect group of people, they have special privileges that others do not. They fear the majority because they know that once the majority takes control, their privileges are lost. A lot has been made about the fact that the GOP is a not a democratic institution. Of course it's not - it never has been.