Since the Median Voter Theorem causes countries with FPTP voting to divide into two opposed tribes that adopt tribal views based on human average principled-ness, anyone more capable of seeing logical consequences than average will have some views that offend "both sides".
Is centrism just Bayesian reasoning applied to political issues (e.g. with priors set at the median voter's views)? Or are there any principled defenses of centrism that go beyond epistemic humility?pic.twitter.com/USvRpqwb3g
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Centrists usually aren't “moderates”. We don't “split the difference.” We typically have views that spread out all across the spectrum, but somehow average out in the middle. We're more about process than ideology. We distrust political tribes, and disagree with each other a lot.
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Which is to say, our views do not cluster in a way that defines the two ideological tribes that dominate US politics. The data points are more diffused on the landscape.
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Needs a definition of centrism. It can mean the median answer ("taxes 1," "taxes 10," centrists "5!") but it can/should also mean "reverence for the conversation." So right presents rightist info, left presents leftist info, we all then get all the facts and make better choices.
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Courts are good analogy. Prosecution presents info that supports guilt, defense presents info that supports innocence. Centrist position isn't "half guilty." It's a better, informed decision based on complete data set.
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Actually I would have much less of a problem with centrism if the priors were set at the median voter's views. Instead they're set at some weird function of the median voter's views and the mean views of capital.
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Any democratic system will require a significant level of buy-in from the populace, or else run the risk of significant disruption up to the point of collapse. To the extent that we regard democratic governance as a good in itself, "centrism" in some degree becomes a necessity.
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There is the uncharitible suggestion that centrism is the unholy compromise between the worst elements of the Left and Right.
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