Just as a question, what exactly do you have against centrists?
There are two problems, the center moves and that most people do not vote.
So the political center resides where less than half of the population thinks it should. That center shifts year to year, depending on the outcome of the election. In 1952, the center would be between the expansion of the social safety net and a massive expansion of the social safety net. Today, the center rests between eliminating the social safety net and modifying the social safety net.
This means that centrist will always change their ideology depending on the environment. This is why Hillary was seen as a flip-flopper, she changed to positions to maintain “the middle.”
With less than half of the nation voting, the political center is not the actual center of the American people. It is a center for those that were able to win amongst the most politically activate portion of the population. It does not matter if those that are politically active disagree with what most of the country wants, the center of the politically active is the most important thing.
Shifts in policy and outcomes that are present in centrists are a liability to any long-standing revolution of the political system.
Due to their ideology of always staying in the middle, they can support massive changes in the system and also fight against those changes later. There is no moral ground in centrism, just a thirst for power, no matter what policy position they must take to get it.
- @theliberaltony
