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?”
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.
oh, praytell us wise sir, what are these ‘root axioms’ from which you are so intelligent?
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.
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.
Centrism. Not finding yourself in the center.
Yes I know what you said. I’m doing this thing called disagreeing where I think something different than what you do.
lol
It’s comments and people like you that divide us
Why I hate being left sometimes
No it isn’t… I’m not feeling very divided by that guy.
Speak for yourself
Ok
- Person currently causing division
lol no.
It’s people like you who insist labels are more important than beliefs that divide us. Genuinely, your ignorance is beyond vile in this context.
I don’t think OP is the one here I’d say is obsessed with labels. The entire question is basically just asking what’s behind them.