What exactly is an example of a "centrist" policy?

centrists are just retarded fence-sitters who haven't picked a side.

>>134721451
That's what I thought, thanks.

You can always tell when a leftist tries to make a point because their example grossly distorts reality.

>>134721370
>Them: abortions on demand!
>You: no abortions, baby killer!
>The vast majority of America: maybe only abortions when mothers life is in danger or within a very limited timeframe before it becomes a real person?

>>134721753
Okay, I'll grant that one. What about economic policy?

>>134721370
OK, you don't get any rights, we don't kill you.

Immigration, for example. There's lots of room between open borders and zero immigration. Just have a quota for people who are thoroughly vetted. That's a centrist position.

>>134721370
is it irony that the left and niggers are actually the ones who burn shit and want to kill whites and the right the ones who just want their own civil right back and not get all this discriminating anti white "diversity" shit forced on them and have a right on their own country back and leftists somehow manage to delude themself that its the completel opposite?

>>134721370
the left will be killed in war
centrists will be put in re-education camps so they hopefully learn to stop being massive pussies.

>>134721370
great propaganda, because no black person ever kills a white out of spite.
fuck you.

>>134721370
A good example of centrist policy would be pedophilia.
Side A
>children can't consent to sex
Side B
>children can consent to sex
Rational centrist
>make the child a slave and then rape them because they are now property instead of a person

>>134721753
>>134721829
Compromising between no murder and lots of murder murder is still allowing some murder.

>>134721753
>implying abortion is bad

>>134721829
>Them: Scandinavian socialist utopia!
>You: Cut-throat Libertarian free market capitalism! Every man for himself!
>The vast majority of America: Maybe overall cutthroat capitalism with some kind of social safety net?

I'm having to reach now, I wasn't prepared to cite economic examples desu.

>>134721370
>What exactly is an example of a "centrist" policy?
>One side believes X
>One side believes Z
>A centrist supports Y
Centrism is always relative for example a centrist might support something akin to Obamacare instead of no government provided healthcare or single payer.

>Think we should de-incentivize abortion and promote prevention instead, as well as have a strict cut-off period, but outright not outright ban
>Get called a retarded degenerate fence-sitter neocon cuckold

The only thing worse than literal compromise-cucks is hard left or right faggots that think anything opposite of their beliefs should be purged.

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Political centrists are only concerned with keeping their jobs, so they're complacent in changing political tides and compromise at every opportunity. Ideological centrists are fence sitters who just don't want to be bothered with conflict and contention. They are distinguished from the radical centrists who propound an extreme ideology without wanting to be associated with normal political extremes like left-right and libertarian-authoritarian.

>>134722258
>the joke
>(you)

>>134722312
You don't need a safety net when everyone has money and people are volunteering to help others. The State steals from a taxbase to fund "charities". No go, shlomo!

>>134721370
Most centrists have sides on individual issues, they just don't fit into the ideological boxes that currently exist on the left/right and agree with some of them sometimes and others other times.

If you think they're necessarily unable to make a stand on principles you don't realise that there are sets of principles outside of the existing left/right paradigm that exists in the context that you are talking about.

>>134721370
>Right side is against civil rights and wants to kill all blacks
This is why Leftists are losing, they're in a warped reality.

Illegals do not have civil rights. Entry into the country is not a civil right. Committing 50% of the crime when you're only 12% of the population does not mean you're oppressed (BLM). Being Brown is not a credential (Affirmative Action, Refugee Crisis).

>>134721370

It's not taking a center line on every single issue, it's being both liberal and conservative. For instance, they might be for civil rights but be open to conservative economic ideas.

>>134721753
Primarily I want abortion to remain in order to keep the black population as low as possible.

>>134721753
>or within a very limited timeframe before it becomes a real person?
That's some magical thinking.

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"Centrists" are just people who neither party wants to claim because they aren't insane extremist die-hards. If you don't want to give women carte blanche to kill babies as they see fit and if you also don't want to ban abortion and condoms and porn then neither party wants you.
>You don't believe in a woman's right to choose? You're a fucking cishetero white patriarchal bigot! You're probably an Islamophobic Nazi too you dumb fucking deplorable fascist! #ImWithHer
>You don't believe in our holy lord and savior Jesus H Christ and think that every sperm rattling around in you is a sweet innocent little Ronnie Reagan waiting to be born? Go fuck yourself, hippie!

A centrist doesn't hold ideology, they instead have values that are to be optimized.

Most comminly value utility, liberty and equality. They don't care how these are achieved, just that it gets done. They will vote for big government and taxes if it helps achieve their values but also for hands off approaches when it maximizes their values.

It makes them effective, but also dangerous. Since they have each have their own unique blend of values they are rarely united in anything, making them an insignificant politidal force.

>>134723380

So, you say this and then

>>134723458

says that

And then you wonder why some of the left think what they think.

>>134722917

I'm citing examples, Billy-bob, not stating my position.

kill some black people
give civil rights to the rest

>>134721370
(((centrists))) are just cowards who want attention for being in the middle ground.

>>134723594
The two posts you quoted literally have nothing to do with each other. Thanks for showing us how leftists "think".

>>134723594
You actually think myself or anyone should care what the left thinks anymore? I was a two term Obama voter. Watching them shrivel and eat each other now is a joy to me. This is a war for western civilization, go fuck yourself and your consideration for the left's feelings, you sound like a civic nationalist.

>>134721634
Most """centrists""" I've come across turned out to be leftists just making excuses to complain about anything right of center without claiming they are on the left. It's never the case for the opposite.

>What exactly is an example of a "centrist" policy?
The Earned Income Tax Credit. Carbon fee and dividend. Free trade. A negative income tax.

>cowardly fence-sitters too afraid to take a stance one way or the other out of fear of offending somebody
Not what centrism is. That more describes moderates, not centrists.

>>134721829
anything with numbers

right: low taxes
left: high taxes
compromise: medium taxes

>>134724018
This. Centrists are a liberal psyop to help shift the Overton window.

>>134723924
Come the day of the rake, you shall be spared. Kill the hood rat gang banging niggers and wellfare pit sheboons. Give the working productive blacks the same rights and nothing more.

>>134724018
This. Centrists are a liberal psyop to help shift the Overton window. They are lefties that pretend to be average on thing so they can subvert right wing ideas and move the conversation gradually to the left.

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>>134724018
> pirate education

Centrist doesn't mean neutral beliefs you fucking mongoloid. It means they hold progressive AND traditional beliefs.

Here's my version of centrist policy:

Abortion, yes
Death Penelty, yes
Affirmative Action, no
Tax Rates, back to Reagan rates
Health Care, single payer
Term limits, yes
Audit the Fed, yes
Deport illegals, yes
Build the pipeline, yes
Unions, yes

Something like that

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>>134721370
The compromise would be to send them back to Africa.

The KKK doesn't get to kill them, but they also don't have to live with them anymore. The black people don't get civil rights, but they get to determine their own destinies in their countries of ethnic origin. Sounds reasonable, tbqhfamalam.

>>134721370
Centrists are usually leftists who want a more tame version to prevent a right wing backlash.

>>134724319
No this is how it's been for ~100 years
Progressive:More taxes, laws, regulations
Conservative:Keep it the same
Compromise:Slightly more taxes, laws, regulations

You still did what progressives want. 99% of the time the regressive option is never brought to the table.

>>134724576
That's third positionism, not centrism.

>>134721451
Often times they have, but their too timid to speak their true thoughts aloud, hard to blame them in this political climate though.

The vast majority of people are centrists

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>>134721753
>>The vast majority of America: maybe only abortions when mothers life is in danger or within a very limited timeframe before it becomes a real person?
From all I can tell, most countries think that way, to bad most don't practice it.

>>134724471
Exactly.

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>>134721370

FTFY

>>134722151
Is it mutual consent?

>>134721753
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIgSTjzrmRg

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>>134725185
perfect

>>134722072

I support market based solutions with strong government oversight for the sake of the public interest.

t. Radical Centrist.

P.S. Try to take my guns.

>>134723197
All principles worth defending are on the right. The left is just an attempt to refute the right in order to normalize some kind of degeneracy.
This is not to say that the right is always right, or the left is always wrong. The difference on the right and the left is on the fundaments. The right is rooted on the intrinsical necessities of human nature, while the left is rooted on the fantasies of human desires.
What matters when taking a political stance is to understand the pressumptions.

Therefore, I think centrists are either:
>Ignorant of moral pressumptions.
>Cowards who can't take a stance for fear of some social repercution.

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>>134721370
At one point they believed in something and got BTFO during a debate. Rather than strengthening their position or taking another they think
>hurr if I don't believe in anything you can't win

>>134725185
Delusional

>>134724690
Unironically this, although single payer+low taxes is unfeasible

People who speak down to centrists are literally brainlets. On the left the narrative is "if you're a centrist it means you're trying to compromise with people WHO ARE LITERALLY EVIL" because the leftist narrative is one of self promotion and eternally being the underdog. The right looks at centrists as if they were cowards without morals, because of course anyone willing to compromise in the case of unique context is a coward.

The middle path is always the wisest. That being said anyone who defines themselves according only to the positions of two other parties is bound to be lost and confused most of the time.

>>134723594
>If someone else I disagrees with thinks something, then you must too!
You must know where the flaw is here. It's important to me that you understand how wrong this is.

Centrist is just a cop out for a ambiguous third political theory or opinion that's free from scrutiny

>>134721370
A centrist policy would be one that's between the two political extremes, e.g., instead of allowing or banning all drugs you'd only want to ban the worst and keep the rest free for use.

In reality, centrists are just political outcasts who might be liberal on some views and conservative on others. I think welfare is bullshit for most recipients, and also believe abortion is a good thing. This would make me a centrist since I have political beliefs that both sides find abhorrent.

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>>134721370
It's true, I just want to kill black people.
If I get digits one boat of refugees will sink in the mediterranean and whoever will try to help them will have their boat sinking as well.

>compromise between "we want civil rights" and "we want to kill black people"
Easy. They can go somewhere in Africa where they can have more civil rights than here.

>>134723594

Don't be naive, anon. Everyone knows that niggers are shitty people. This includes the niggers themselves. The problem is when niggers try to pretend that nigging is worthy of respect.