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 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.