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Re: Where have all the centrists gone?
« on: April 25, 2009, 05:17:14 pm »
moderate as in one who falls in the middle of the political spectrum. Moderates of any ideological lean generally have more in common than they do with any extremist.

I disagree with the validity of a comprehensive "political spectrum". I think different political ideologies are separate and unrelated to most other political ideologies because they stem from different sets of modus operandi.

And I think the use of terms such as centrist and extremist, moderate and radical are misleading.

Since anything strongly opposed to any one modus operandi could be classified as extremist or radical from the point of view of the individual. As well anything opposed yet not totally in disagreement with any one modus operandi could be classified as moderate or centrist.

And since these things  (to me at least) seem to all stem from different modus operandi the use of moderate and centrist extremist and radical seem quite misleading (from my perspective).