Is the Center More Fascist Than Fascists?

[Husar]

How do you explain the center almost always, on almost every topic, have less support for these democratic ideals than extremists? Are extremists just that idealistic, disconnected from reality? What does it mean if centrists care more about security and results over institutions or "freedom"?

Keep in mind that the authors haven't developed their full results for the center-right and center-left.

A lot of factors could be at play, beginning with the definition of democracy they use, over how one would define a "very good" system, what other systems they may have in mind, what they connect with democracy and so on and also a connection between how people self-define for the study. For example people who are not doing well and are fed up with the existing parties might be more likely to self-define as centrist since they do not want to define themselves as leaning towards either side of the current system that they don't like. Their problems on the other hand could come from a source that isn't necessarily democratic, such as oligarchic structures. Yet they blame democracy because people look for easy answers.
And then we're also missing the totals unless there is a link that I ignored that has them. If 90% of centrists think x and only 20% of rightists do that is one thing, but if 5000 people self-identify as rightist and only 3 as centrist (I know, the last centrist would be split of sorts )...

@Husar

Political unionism and transnational cooperation will be indispensable.

Have you never noticed that I jokingly and somewhat seriously said how much I dislike Britain? Part of it is that aside from the NHS they put capitalism on a pedestal almost as high as the one it gets in the US. And whether the EU is really corporatist is a matter of debate IMO. And partially remains to be seen. The EU certainly hands out more punishments to big business than the individual member states do. The tiny ones are usually just concerned with lowering all the corporate taxes to zero for their "competitive advantage" so they can remove the new wage slaves from unemployment statistics since for some strange, unknown reason they lack the tax income to pay the unemployment benefits.