Political Centrism Debate
The cluster focuses on debates about centrism being perceived as right-wing bias, the limitations of the left-right political spectrum, shifts in the Overton window, and Hacker News' audience leaning towards centrism or center-right views.
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sounds like you just have a bias for centrism
That post is describing a dichotomy between far-right and centrist politics. How exactly is that not a massive right-wing bias?
May be you are too far left where "middle" seems like far right?
what about right-center or left-center? ;)
I think what you're noticing is that a simple left/right along a line is a poor way to express someone's political views.I suspect that because a huge portion of the HN crowd are educated IT workers / would-be founders, overall there's both a strong support for capitalism mixed with progressive social views. That doesn't really connect well with the political landscape in most of the western world and typically gets you labeled a centrist, regardless of how impor
Irrespective of political ideology? So not center right
There's no room for moderates in today's political climate. "You are either completely on board or you are against me" so the current zeitgeist goes. Essentially you have to align your beliefs and talking points with /r/politics and /r/enlightenedcentrism, or you are just closeted alt right.
That's definitely going on. There's also something that I've heard called "reactionary centrism:" a feedback loop of people who think that truth lies in the middle between the two extremes, and also that assumes that no mainstream position in a political faction can itself be the "extreme." And that if they find that one political faction is doing something that seems extreme to them, that in the interests of fairness and centrism, they must start considering s
Most people aren't particularly left or right wing!
Far-left of center, or far-left of you?