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Old 09-24-2020, 11:35 AM   #7781 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by TheBig3 View Post
The idea that Centrism exists at the median between two opposing ideologies... that's only a belief you can hold if you don't think about it at all. Which isn't shocking, anyone on the political fringe believes whole-cloth things they agree with while simultaneously thinking they're objective.

But here, let me think for you: What would a person who did what you think Centrism is have for an ideology? Math? Would they quantify positions of all ideologies and make a spreadsheet to discover their positions?

Politics isn't like that. People aren't like that. For a bunch of music fans the emotional intelligence here is in short supply.
Thanks for doing the thinking for me. I thought that my concept of centrism was pretty different from what you describe here but I guess you know best. You should work for Slate.

How do you define centrism and answer the question of how centrists form their "ideology"?
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