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?”

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

    I think the main issue is that Left & Right really shouldn’t be a thing.

    You can be Pro-Gun and Pro-Abortion, it should really be issue specific.

    The two party system fucks us, or the US at least, which then fucks the rest of us

    • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      it’s not a US specific thing.

      It’s a human being thing. People just want a reason to dismiss you and hate you, rather than talk to you. Political beliefs are just the latest thing people get upset about.

      decades ago it was race or religion. but folks are less racist and less religious, politics has replaced it as the go-to reason to dismiss people as awful and evil.

      and on lemmy, well, centrism is evil because everyone here thinks they are the sole source of all correct and good views on politics and anyone who disagrees with them is right-wing because they are good and right-wing is evil. as you can see from most of the comments here.

    • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Even further for many things there is a question of absolute national do it anytime and letting local juristictions decide. So folks can be like absolutist about something or more locality while being for something. So basically being pro or anti can be a bit more in between itself.