Lately my emotions have tended toward anger at the apathetic middle, not the cartoon villains of the Penguin Administration.

I know it’s a minority view but I blame all this on the nice normal people that thought they had better things to do than pay attention to politics.

If you do not see the need for aggressive responses to lawlessness, you let this happen and I find you boring.

This has been my position since I was a teenager: centrists are the weak underbelly because they can’t pick a side and just want a middle ground.

Great sentiment, but you never have a side, a cause, and your “meaning” is always shifting to placate everyone else in the name of middleness.

Compromise is an important part of government.

I too believe in centrism, so long as the parties are on equal footing and we apply ethics.

If the one side isn’t operating in good faith, and keeps shifting their view more and more extreme, the other side also needs to shift more and more extreme so that the compromise still ends up in the theoretical middle.

Current events are proof that your preconditions needed for compromise to work do not exist in the real world.

That’s because the democrats refuse to move left and don’t have a backbone.

“my centrism isn’t a problem, it’s DEMOCRATS for not being left enough, because then my centrism would really be centered”

Sure bud, whatever helps you sleep at night I guess.

You aren’t wrong about democrats being spineless, but Personally I could never try and compromise with someone who thinks my very existence and the existence of minorities gives them a reason to hate and persecute up to literal lynching and murder but that’s just me.

You missed the part about ethics. The compromise between murdering and not murdering minorities is to not murder minorities.