Centrist Dems ready strike against Warren wing

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15. Just to be clear about the rhetoric of centrism and moderatism

they are used for their emotional appeal to people who think in terms of the middle as following some sort of 'Goldilocks Principle' that always yields what is 'just right'. That's especially true for people disgusted with "the politics of both parties''.

It plays on the assumption that popular political thinking follows a unimodal symmetrical bell-shaped curve with most measured elements close to the center. But that assumption has become a word trick, something that uses seemingly mathematical logic to build plausibility rather then reflecting reality

All centers are not the same...each is relative to membership in a set.

The center of the democratic party base is not at all the same center referred to in 'centrist politician'. Indeed we know from repeated polling on war, on immigration, on trade, on bank/financial regulation etc that the center of the electorate, turns out to be well left of the center of the center for the elected.

When a politician or the media declare something as 'moderate' or 'centrist' we must ask ourselves center of what? Moderate compared to what?

If the center describing the politician isn't the same as the center you desire in a policy or a candidate, there is a need to reconcile your support for the policy or politician relative to the meaning hidden in that difference