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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (18546)	5/19/2006 1:45:37 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541857

I don't think there's any such thing as a centrist position. I think I agree. If there are two dominant specific ideas, ideologies, or parties, you could define the center as what is in the middle between the two, but neither liberalism or conservatism (or Democrats or Republicans) really are concentrated on very specific exact shared ideas. Also even if they where figuring out what is half way in between them involves guesswork and opinion. Then there is the fact that there are many people who don't primarily consider themselves (or consider themselves at all) to be Liberal or Conservative, or to be a supporter of either major party. Even multidimensional representations of the spectrum of political ideologies are gross simplifications. You can derive a center from some arbitrary simple projection of people's political ideas, but the fact that it is arbitrary and oversimplified means you don't really have a center. Of course you could define the center as whatever viewpoint has a majority, but majorities, esp. when they are narrow, constantly shift, and besides I don't think that is what most people mean by "the center". Tim