@FlyingSquid In my humble experience and understanding ‘centrism’ has been always an euphemism for ‘far right’ for the “politically correct” miserable cowards…
And in my humble experience, some significant part of the left has increasingly turned to dogmatic absolutism in recent years, maybe under influence of social media. I’m far from a centrist (would consider myself fairly radically left wing in many aspects) but I’ve been called a bootlicking scumbag for saying something like “not every single police officer is the absolute scum of the earth.”
I’ve always held that one of the key parts of what sets us apart from the right wing is that we allow questioning our own beliefs and are open to nuance. But that seems to be less and less the case.
@FMT99 Agree, but I don’t see this as a recent development. Dogmatic absolutism, or mere dogmatism, has been a very long and old issue -not just in the left, obviously.
Anyway, about police, the problem ain’t single ones, but the social role that apparatus plays in the social regime. (Most police individuals usually came from the working class…)
That’s quite a humble understanding imho. Centrists are technocratic. Evidence led, not ideological. Take good ideas from the centre right on regulating business and combine that with social policies from the left.
@FlyingSquid In my humble experience and understanding ‘centrism’ has been always an euphemism for ‘far right’ for the “politically correct” miserable cowards…
And in my humble experience, some significant part of the left has increasingly turned to dogmatic absolutism in recent years, maybe under influence of social media. I’m far from a centrist (would consider myself fairly radically left wing in many aspects) but I’ve been called a bootlicking scumbag for saying something like “not every single police officer is the absolute scum of the earth.”
I’ve always held that one of the key parts of what sets us apart from the right wing is that we allow questioning our own beliefs and are open to nuance. But that seems to be less and less the case.
@FMT99 Agree, but I don’t see this as a recent development. Dogmatic absolutism, or mere dogmatism, has been a very long and old issue -not just in the left, obviously.
Anyway, about police, the problem ain’t single ones, but the social role that apparatus plays in the social regime. (Most police individuals usually came from the working class…)
Agreed.
That’s quite a humble understanding imho. Centrists are technocratic. Evidence led, not ideological. Take good ideas from the centre right on regulating business and combine that with social policies from the left.
The Nordic model basically.
I have yet to encounter a self-described “centrist” that can justify their hollow pandering with anything that can remotely be called evidence.
The success of the Nordic social market model?