"Centrism"

[Husar]

Yup, "left" and "right" border on meaninglessness. Don't get me started on "liberal" and "conservative," which often mean the dead opposite of their actual, you know, definition.

I give you a real Conservative:

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[Centurion1]

On some things i am very conservative. but there are certain issues on which i actually agree with democrats.

[Samurai Waki]

Left - right, Conservative-Liberal get bandied about too much these days. Both are equal means to the same end of your wallet.

[LittleGrizzly]

I think people like seeing themselves as centerists as they can think of themself as some pragmatist who takes the best ideas from each side, which infers that the people on either side of them or incapable of coherent thought and just blindly follow thier dogma...

Of course there are those on each side who do blindly follow thier sides view, and then of course there are those that are actually centerist...

But the big clamour to be seen as a centerist is partially to make yourself look pragmatic partially so you can be more convincing in arguments to both sides...

The last part is true for me... if someone i agree with often takes a position contary to mine it makes me question myself more... if its someone i usually disagree with it would reinforce my position if anything (though i don't intentionally the effect could be there and i am blind to it...)

[HoreTore]

I think people like seeing themselves as centerists as they can think of themself as some pragmatist who takes the best ideas from each side, which infers that the people on either side of them or incapable of coherent thought and just blindly follow thier dogma...

Yeah, I've heard some nice things about that "third way".....

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[Husar]

Yeah, geologically speaking Hitler was a centrist...

[Kadagar_AV]

Left and right is dead in our generation...

"our generation" is a broad term, I know... But it goes between 14 yo to older people who are up-to-date enough to follow the mainstream internet....

As an example, last time I checked the poll-bot... I found that my two closest political parties were the very left wing and the very right wing.. However, I had nothing in common with the center parties...

What do I get out of that?

I am.... right wing on some questions and left wing on others... It all boils down to common sence.

However, I could never vote either right or left as either would vote against me in the majority of questions...

This is the new generation...

Our grandparents would or will vote for some ideology, while in fact, ideology is dead. The new generation are more interested in specific issues, than ideology at large...

So let's tackle each topic as it comes, shall we?