Centrism... Is Basically Saying... You're A Reagan Democrat...

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13. Nary a one.

Like I said, I reject extremism. I support pretty much all liberal policies like national health care and such: but I am not in favor of a violent revolution, government shutdown, sitting out an election, or other such extremist tactics, to achieve those goals. The people who get hurt the most in such actions are the poor, the young, the old, the sick, and the powerless. Damned if I will abandon a centrist approach for a the the extremist methods and have that blood on my hands.

Keep in mind, there are more axes than Rep-Dem: there are Left-Right, rich-poor, authoritarian-libertarian, and so on. To assume that a person occupies a position on one particular axis is shallow and simplistic. We here at DU, according to the TOS, are liberals and/or supporters of Dems; and regardless of our position on a line of any sort, we all have a place here to make "democracy safe for the world", as Walt Kelly said.

Centrism has, I daresay, as many definitions as "liberalism" or any other ism. The important thing is to ASK an adherent of a particular belief or political group what THEY think it means, and not project our own preconceptions upon them.