Have you seen any research on how many people identify (and conceive of themselves) as a centrist in the former sense? My intuition says it'd be like 90%, but I'm not even sure how I would measure/solicit that information.
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Like, "I'm a centrist" is used almost indiscriminately as a way of expressing "I'm objective/rational" while implicitly rejecting/eliding some "other" position. That's not really identifiable on a survey.
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I think you could make nearly the same argument for most radicals of any stripe.
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On twitter, anyway.
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Yea, I'm probably conflating / collapsing the latter with, {Identity(centrist), Claims(radical, objective) | Uses(Twitter)}
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I don't know what you mean in this context by aesthetic label.
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ok, now i think i understand what you mean by the distinction
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"mimes and cheese" *takes deep breath*
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