I often see on here that someone that says they are Center just means they are right wing.

Eg. this post https://piefed.social/c/wikipedia@lemmy.world/p/2492350/centre-party

Center Party = Far right.

And I get that that is often true, but that got me thinking, when is someone actually “Center?”

  • yesman@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    A true centrist is someone who considers both left and right positions carefully, then sides with the right.

    Centrism is rarely a coherent ideology and to most people it’s seen as the “default” or “starting” position of politics. In reality, issue by issue, there is rarely a coherent ‘in between’ position. Centrists tend to be politically naive, and navigate the world by intuition (they call it common sense). The Right dominates people who think this way.

    • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      15 days ago

      It doesn’t have to be an ideology.

      People don’t fit neatly into boxes or necessarily have to subscribe to an ideology fully.

      Centrilsts might be politically naive yes, but that doesn’t just make them Right wing automatically?

      • spankysalmon@fedinsfw.appEnglish
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        15 days ago

        Centrism is the ideology of not having an ideology. If you’re not working from root axioms, if you’re just winging every moral decision… that’s being a loser, not politically intelligent.