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    The probability of encountering a “non-extremist” right-winger is exactly the same as of encountering a “non-extremist” left-winger and is quite small. The vast majority of people are moderates, either left or right leaning.

    Also, from the European perspective, the American left aka Democrats are quite right leaning :)

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      Oh look… an “enlightened centrist” has shown up to run interference for the right-wingers.

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        Oh look, a person that cannot distinguish center from right. I wonder how you drive if you can’t into directions.

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          “Centrist” is such nonsense without further context.

          If youre a centrist between the democrats and Republicans, you’re basically a fascist.

          If you’re a centrist between an anarchist and a marxist leninist then you’re left wing.

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            Hey look, a fascist word! Actually that’s quite offensive to hear, for an European, who’s family suffered from literal fascism. And the Americans now just throwing the word left and right and label people they disagree with. Sad.

            Also I view both US Democrats and US Republicans as right wingers.

            To give you more context: I support individual liberty, equal rights, welfare state in form of social healthcare and education; I oppose authoritarian ideologies; I believe in free market with some regulation to prevent exploiting and guarantee positive liberties, such as health; I support direct democracy, decentralization and non-interventionist policy.

            I would characterize my political alignment as in between social democrat and social libertarian.

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              My family also suffered from fascism, I do not use the word lightly.

              I oppose authoritarian ideologies

              Cool, so you oppose any ideology which has private (as opposed to personal) property rights that are enforced through state violence?

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              I oppose authoritarian ideologies; I believe in free market

              Curious, you oppose authoritarian ideologies but are happy to let a dictatorship of capital and inherited wealth suck up everything except the table scraps.

              Not a European or American here, but I love how Europeans shit on Americans as though the continent wasn’t full of collaborators and haven’t seen a rightward turn since the collapse of the USSR

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          Oh look, a person that cannot distinguish politics from vehicular activity. I wonder how you manage to drive anywhere without ever turning left.

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      Left extremism: everyone should be treated with dignity and we should live in an actual democracy or concensus based society(as opposed to bourgeois democracy which is empirically an oligarchy), and we shouldn’t be unwilling to use violence toward those goals(except some are radical pacifists)

      Right Extremists: women should be forced to sleep with me and minorities should be gassed or used for slave labor. Also I should be exploited by my boss harder.

      Enlightened centrist: I cannot tell the difference between these two things

      Honestly tells us more about “centrists” than anything else.