The existence of moderates must be unsettling to extremists. If everyone who disagreed with them was an other-side extremist, they could feel more confident that they were right. But they must wonder where we get our opinions, why we sometimes agree with them, and sometimes not.
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This has some good points, but "Whereas an accidental moderate's opinions will be scattered over a broad range, but will, like those of the intentional moderate, average to about 50." is still centrism. One can be independent and open minded without landing in the middle.
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I don't think there are very many of the "intentional" moderates you describe - instead, centrists have an unexamined gut assumption that "the far right and far left are roughly equally wrong" and proceed from there.
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That was a good essay, but I think the far right ignores moderates more than the far left simply because there are many more people on the center-left than center-right
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