Quote Originally Posted by Pannonian View Post
What you mean by centre is probably different from what I mean by centre. For me, centre isn't so much a position on social politics, as it is how these politics are pursued. Evidence-based arguments, listening to qualified experts, respect for custom and agreements, desire for truth, fairness in applying standards, and a revulsion against those who are against the above. You see the alt-right offending against the above, and they certainly do, but the left here are aware that the far left also offend in the same manner.
Pretty much all of what you define as "centre" is absent from American politics and large swaths of both major parties are at fault.

What you define as centre is what I call "thoughtful consideration and decision making" but it seems to involve too much effort for most of my fellow Americans to bother.