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
    61·
    3 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?

    • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
      9·
      3 days ago

      you’re trying to be rational and thoughtful here.

      that makes you an evil centrist, clearly.

      the people on lemmy here don’t want to discuss things, they just want to label you as awful for not being as politically hardcore or pure or whatever as they believe themselves to be.

    • spankysalmon@fedinsfw.appEnglish
      66·
      3 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.

      • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
        52·
        3 days ago

        oh, praytell us wise sir, what are these ‘root axioms’ from which you are so intelligent?

        • spankysalmon@fedinsfw.appEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          lol condescending asshole… They’re supposed to be YOUR axioms, not mine. They could be anything you supposedly care about.

          The point in identifying and using axioms is to not accidentally be a hypocrite, like every Republican that voted for Trump that thinks small government is the way to go.

      • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        3 days ago

        Centrism describes the views you have, not the methods you have used to obtain those views, so this is incorrect on a base level. Someone who thinks through their views from first principles and lands on having views between the current left and right (somehow, seems hard to do but it’s possible) is a centrist. Someone who wings their views and pays no attention to politics at all but happens to align more with a right or left ideology is not a centrist.