Why do centrists exist? - Do they lack intrinsic morals?

[PaleTay]

Centrist are less about having their own individual opinions, and just value a relative centrism in regards to society in an almost tribal way where they hope to survive by having no consistent convictions. For example, a lot of people who had no issue with BLM rioting, but thought everyone should be in harsh lockdown a week before.

Are they just weak and going with the tribe?

 

[Lemmingwise]

In ideological civil wars, only about 30% of people are involved. Most people don't care enough.

It's usually a winning strategy. I don't think it currently is though, as although centrist have below average replacement rate, extremists of each side have above average replacement rate. So not only are extremists winning, in a Darwinian sense, it also means the future will be more extremist.

 

[Blasterisk]

Centrism for centrism's sake is cringe, but centrism for the sake of avoiding lunatics (and avoiding being one) is based.

The fact is, you can get a lot more done in life if you don't stop to rave about [group of 20 people on the internet] with [opinion] every half-hour.

 

[Marissa Moira]

I just want to offend people on both sides.

 

[GHTD]

Politics makes you clinically retarded and it's better just to make your own choices instead of agreeing with one side on all issues.

 

[Shig O'nella]

Someone's got to grow the food, build and maintain the machines, deal with the trash, fix the roads ... You've seen what happens when idealogues try to do that.

 

[MrTroll]

Being a centrist gets me invited to parties on Joe Manchin's yacht.

 

[Tad Loaf]

 

[Black Light Red Panic]

I'm an American, General. Sometimes I feel like the last.

 

[PaleTay]

Someone's got to grow the food, build and maintain the machines, deal with the trash, fix the roads ... You've seen what happens when idealogues try to do that.

But the ideologues have already raised your kids to be non-binary with 8 mental illnesses, burned down and/or closed your business, brought in homeless on every corner, created no-go zones, and built coof camps. The world is already fucked if they don't get involved.

 

[Lemmingwise]

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That's what third position is for.

 

[FarCentrist]

Because both sides act like retards

 

[pepper]

It makes more sense to develop your own opinions rather than picking a side, especially given how batshit insane both sides are in recent years.

 

[FencePost]

Because there's a difference between being a wishy-washy faggot and have the general presence of mind to identify and call out the failings, self destructive or not, of opposing camps. A stupid idea is a stupid idea, regardless of the origins.

 

[Pruto]

Because picking predetermined sides makes you a tool, doesn't mean centrists can't have presonal opinions that lean to one side or the other, but becoming a textbook example of one side's 100% politics is a sad thing that happens to fucking often for some reason.

 

[timewave0]

There are two kinds of centrism, one is spineless and the other is rational:

The spineless kind involves sitting on the fence, never taking a firm stance on any issue (think of Boogie for instance). It’s a fear of confrontation combined with the delusional belief that there can be a coherent middle ground between diametrically opposed ideologies.

The rational kind involves evaluating all issues independent of any particular political ideology. You make decisions on the basis of your own first principles regardless of where that might lead you in political terms. This is the ideal approach imo, otherwise politics becomes nothing more than a glorified sportsball competition where allegiance to your team outweighs everything else

 

[X Prime]

Timewave is correct, but leaves unsaid that the first one is the usual kind.

Most people claim to be the second but are simply lying.

 

[The Last Stand]

Timewave is correct, but leaves unsaid that the first one is the usual kind.

Most people claim to be the second but are simply lying.

To piss YOU off personally.

 

[X Prime]

I'm not exactly sure why you think the universe revolves around me, but I appreciate the sentiment.

 

[Isaac]

Being bound to an ideology and being a centrist are two different things: you're allowed to be anti-semetic while not supporting the NSDAP and: you can be in favor of workers rights without being a dang dirty social democrat.