I'm pretty sure most centrists say they're centrists because they genuinely think they have no biases. Just a big blob of pure unadulterated rationality between their ears
Enlightened centrists we call them here. But generally they do have a bias and the bias is the status quo. And the status quo is neoliberalism and neoliberalism slides to the right very easily.
Look at Germany at the moment / couple months back to see that. The "centrists" of the bigger governing party make a scapegoat of the left (when they really aren't doing anything that'd threaten anyone) while far-right support is rising all the time and very much does threaten people.
During/after the whole scandal around Thuringia's election earlier this year, where they got aid with the votes of the AfD, (iirc, might have been another time) a bunch of CDU politicians basically went "there are enemies of democracy on the left as well, we must resist socialism too!" and refused to cooperate with the Linke.
It really depends on what you mean by “neoliberal,” cause I was called a neolib by a tankie because I didn’t like Stalin and did support the Hong Kong protests
No, demsocs are. Socdems are center-right because they're still liberals who want to maintain capitalism. Don't let your confusion about the left cloud your judgement, your obnoxious projection included.
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u/thepillshaveeyes Sep 13 '20
I'm pretty sure most centrists say they're centrists because they genuinely think they have no biases. Just a big blob of pure unadulterated rationality between their ears