@PeachMcD @alexch @QasimRashid

Centrist is the rational policies that balance worker, society, business, and government priorities, acknowledging that government is important and requires compromise while requiring constraints on its breadth and it embraces the complexities of the system. It believes that both extremes are dangerous and fights against them. e.g. To consider markets w/o labor is partisan manipulation. All policies must consider the inherent pluralities of the issues.

@nicerobot @PeachMcD @QasimRashid

that sounds nice but in nearly every practical case there are WAY more than two extremes

and centrists usually (definitionally?) assume the fallacy that messy moral compromises are always preferable to clear, elegant, effective policies that must actually pick a winner between competing interests— which ends up meaning moneyed interests usually get their way at the expense of everyone else’s welfare and ideals