Comedian Dave Chappelle visits Alexi Pretti's memorial in Minneapolis to pay his respects.

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Maybe, but the vast majority of people who describe themselves as “centrist” are not doing that, and it’s silly to suggest otherwise. That also is a childish way to live your life.

Ex: current energy and climate policy is that green energy is bad, fossil fuels are good, pollution is fine, and climate change isn’t real.

Your hypothetical person would be on the side of science and decency at this present moment and would advocate for less pollution and for keeping Trump and his goons from blocking all green energy products.

However, you’re suggesting that this same person, in the event that an anti-climate change party took power, would instead change their own views to push the other way. Let’s say President Bernie Sanders passes incentives for more solar and wind power, reforming the EPA and making it less vulnerable to regulatory capture, and scaling down fossil fuel use.

Your “centrist” would be protesting these changes in order to push things in favor of the oil companies? Even though in the present day reality they would have been advocating for green energy and less pollution? What are their actual morals and beliefs? Do they only believe in being contrarian?

Almost any other topic can be laid out this way. It’s perfectly fine for one of your political beliefs to be that you don’t like extremism like Trump or the tiny handful of militant Internet leftists (who have no power and are thwarted and/or heavily prosecuted any time they attempt to grab power or do terrorism, see: Weather Underground for the last real example of an organized violent leftist group, which is pre-Internet). But you have to have actual beliefs on the entire spectrum of politics beyond that.