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?”
The political spectrum shifts, so what it means to be a centrist can change a bit over time.
It generally means that policy-wise or ideologically you fall somewhere between two major political ideologies.
Right now, in the United States, being a centrist means you’re a coward idiot. Because right now, what the sides represent is so wildly contrary that to be a centrist you have to be too scared to choose between right and wrong and/or too stupid to see that there is no middle right now. There is no fence you can sit on between fascism and democracy.
I’m more thinking in general, yea the US is cookeda but, a symptom of the two party system
And pretty much nobody is. Even people that say they’re “independents” in the US tend to not actually be, if you look into it a bit more.
There’s also apolitical, but that’s not really in the spirit of the question.