No, it's not. People can find themselves in the centre but this is almost never a result of a philosophical commitment to 'centrism.'https://twitter.com/melonfraufrau/status/898316801708359680 …
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Almost no-one's principles or moral intuitions revolve around finding the centre of any issue & believing in that.
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Rather they are in the centre because their values happen to be in the country they live in. Elsewhere, they'd be somewhere else.
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So, 'centrism' is not the right way to look at it. There are positive values there & ppl defined by those, not where they fall on spectrum
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Replying to @HPluckrose
It's a bad word, I quite like incrementalist to describe the different viewpoint from the year zero politics of eg. Farage & Corbyn.
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Replying to @sirtophamhat @HPluckrose
the whole left/right idea is moribund. Majority pick decent ideas from either side and so straddle. New thinking needed
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@GodDoesnt and I have a manifesto being published in a few days which makes that argument. :)
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