Memes of Production

Some centrists are, frankly, low information voters. They don't really have a conviction or do their research well. I love my friend and I owe him a lot, but he supported Trump because of the initial anti-war and immigration rhetoric. He's not far right, he supports Palestine and he's a Pole who despise the far right party that ruled his country for eight years; but he is one of the many single and lonely men who feels lost and doesn't have a direction. His background and profile are those preyed upon by the right, even if the person is of varying flavour of centrist.

The right don't really need to convince people to join them, they just have to sow enough doubt to prevent the left from being a coherent movement.

“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”

MLK

In a sane country, centrism means you still support universal healthcare. Obviously not in the US and overtime less and less in other countries.

They're worse than conservatives. At least with conservatives you know they're assholes. Centrists are also assholes but they waste so much time trying to convince people that they're not.

Guys, just don't be poor and it's not an issue!

There's no such thing as a centrist.

“Centrist” is just what conservatives, corporatist parasites, and / or fascists call themselves when they don't want their victims to realise they're conservatives, corporatist parasites, and / or fascists.

I don’t think they’re necessarily “bad people”, but leftists can be really annoying when they argue using straw men, like OP.

Scratch a liberal...

The left-right spectrum is a bit of a capitalist sham anyways. class noises

I would call myself a (left) centrist, but I guess in has a different meaning where you live. In the Netherlands not even a right party is about letting people die without insurance.

Realists (who sometimes appear to be centrists) wish many leftists would value actual harm reduction over purity.

Look, all the differences between any form of right wing and left wing come down to one single difference in thougt: right wingers think people are livestock that must be corralled and controlled in order to maximise the profit that can be extracted from them; left wingers think that people are... well, you know, people.

That's a binary choice. There's no middle ground between considering people people and considering them product. Don't come at me with “but some people”, you monstrous bastards. Any so called centrist saying otherwise is either a right winger trying to control you and extract profit from you, or an idiot scammed by one into promoting their bullshit.

People are people. All of us. And if you want them to treat you like you'd want them to treat you, you'd better do the same back, not because of some religious nonsense, but because otherwise society collapses into a brutal free for all, and your chance of coming on top is infinitesimally small, no matter how loaded a hand you were born with. And even if win the bastard lottery and end up on top, so what? You'll die soon enough like any other of us, shitting and pissing yourself as you go, and you can't take any of your stolen wealth with you. You'll just be remembered as that monstrous bastard who took everything and gave back nothing and made life worse for everyone else, may you rest in piss. Might as well use that wealth to help people and make the world better for everyone, but of course you wouldn't have been able to amass all that stolen wealth to start with if you had even a shade of humanity in your rotten mind.

When the choice is treating people as people, or not, there's no middle ground, there's no appeasement, there's no compromise.

You're either for humanity, or against it.