Lets say l support right wing policies about “free market” but left wing about ownership/property ownership/guns.
Or none of my beliefs are radical, is more correct.
Does that make me a centrist or indecisive?
A two party system doesn’t allow for nuance or dissenting opinions. I consider myself very liberal in most things. But I don’t strictly fit in the American liberal box. I think a gay couple should be able to get married, buy a machine gun, buy any drug they want at a corner store, see a doctor at no cost outside of tax, do whatever they want to their bodies, a robust support system should exist for their children, own land, do whatever they want on their land, open a cash business and do a whole bunch of other conflicting things. The world isn’t black and white.
So pretty much everything you described is left except buying something designed to kill dozens of people. So maybe prioritise.
if you go far enough left you get your guns back. there’s no revolution without them :3
Doesn’t seem to be helping Americans so I’ll take my chances and not have children be killed in school shootings every day
I did, that’s why it was number 2 😉. Several of the other things on that list are also more right than left. Plus the whole last part of my statement.
In my country, centrist parties just mean “rightwing but will support a bill from a leftwing ruling party if that party gives us a ministry or gov department to run”
Labels are an over-simplification of the real world. This post sounds like you are trying to shoehorn a complex reality into a simple label, like the label really means anything.
You got it backwards. You are a complex being with complex beliefs.
In a two-party system, having a collection of positions that does not align well with either makes you an independent, not necessarily a centrist.
Centrist is often used to describe someone who is aligned with a party, but holds mild or compromised versions of that party’s positions. It can also describe someone who wants things to stay mostly as they are with any changes being incremental, but one might reasonably describe that position as conservative.
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So centrism accepts a particular framework for discussing politics. One historically grounded in traditional liberalism and the hedgemony all politics since really the 1700’s has sat under. Within that context left and right are two approaches, two forms of liberalism.
You can take other approaches to understanding politics. For example, you can to a more vertical, issue based approach, where individuals, institutions, etc… are represented by “baskets” of interests.
Sounds like you could be. Why is it important to know?
A centrist is someone that’s too afraid to admit they’re a conservative.
