Any one who says they are a centerist is admitting they realize both sides are horrid for them but lack the ability to come up or articulate a position outside of the dictomony offered. "Centerists" instinctively feel both left and right are both turds that just come as different colors but can't figure out how to explain why they feel that why.
It's not really left vs right.
It's actually between people who score high on the integratively complex scale vs those who score low on said scale.
Here is a video explaining it:
In short it it about people who can understand problems from many views and nuance vs those who can't.
If you want more works explaining how both are the same I suggest the following authors and works:
In Praise of Doubt: How to Have Convictions Without Becoming a Fanatic by Peter Burger
Eric Hoffers True Believer.
the lucifer principle by Howard Bloom.
Other books you can try are:
Expert Political Judgment by Philip Tetlock The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
The Three Languages of Politics by Arnold Kling
Twilight of the Elites by Chris Hayes
Them by Jon Ronson
The big sort by Houghton mifflin
Grand Illusion the myth of voter choice
By theresa amato
Free lunch by David cay Johnson
All these works talk about the difference between a fanatic vs the moderate.
Now my personal view?
If you hate both side equally then go make a new idea that transcend the left vs right dictomony.
That what I am doing. No one says you have to pick one of two bad options. If you are not happy what's on the market go make something you do like. If you can't make a new one then go shop for one you do like.
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