the extremes on the left and right are trying to defeat a two-party solution for partisan purposes three out of four americans agree on the infrastructure bill that creates jobs helps families doesn't raise taxes empowers america to beat china don't listen to the extremes support bipartisan infrastructure now cool okay fine let's be a little bit more charitable and actually understand what's going on here centrists and moderates in the us the two terms are pretty much interchangeable are people and politicians who are not entirely satisfied with the political programs of either major political party unlike people who reject both parties from the opposite ends of the spectrum moderates are most at home in the supposed bipartisan middle they usually like saying things like we're neither left nor right we'll get to that sentence in a minute but first we might want to understand centrists a little better if we are to assume the definition of left and right as historically transcendent terms about the stance one has towards present society and values like egalitarianism being a centrist doesn't really make sense over time movements that start out on the left like liberalism republicanism or even parliamentary monarchy become solidly right-wing movements without ever changing their ideology because they replace the old right and become contested by the new more radical left in such a position centrism becomes nothing more than a conservative ideology its prime directive is resistance to change and as a result it's not as they claim neither left nor right it's just right wing it might have been on the left in yesterday's society but now that the goals of the old left are the established order and have become the new conservative right preserving present society with only incremental and moderate reform which is what centrists believe in becomes a profoundly conservative worldview and it makes sense that this is where moderacy settles because it has to compromise between two completely opposing ideas changing society in a new way or keeping it the same think about classic central statements like we just need a mix of socialism and capitalism an idea that makes absolutely zero sense when you understand the two ideologies and that their base disagreement about the ownership of the means of production makes them fundamentally incompatible okay this all might seem a little confusing let's get away from the theory for a second and look at something concrete like the biden brand of centrism i know how to make government work
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