Reply #17: Well in some ways yep - my issue was with the implication [View All]

[dmallind]

that political centrists are non existent and not worth chasing. They certainly do, regardless of label, and certainly are. What is the difference between someone who can "biconceptually" endorse both right of center and left of center opinions dependeing on the issue and how ity is sold, and "centrists"? It only proves centrists a "phantom" if an idea of a centrist posited was something like "someone who stakes out a point between two extremes as close to median as possible regardless of the issue". That's not a definition I'd support - a centrist is just someone who does not always fall down on the right or left side as an automatic reaction. Call them whatever you want, but there are people who are susceptible to both somewhat progressive and somewhat conservative opinions, and we need amore of them to vote our way than the other.