• eltrain123@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, but that ‘center’ is a relative term and people move ‘center’ to fit their opinion. Every American I know thinks they are close to center, but I know people that are far left and far right, as well as people that lean left and right from a mostly central position.

    No one wants to consider themselves radicalized, but there are a lot of people out there that are.

    Most of American politics is right wing. Democrats lean right and Republicans run right. You could change the slant of your statement with a left-bias, instead of the right, by saying everyone left of center is progressive and everyone right of center is regressive.

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      3 months ago

      Correct, I invoked an unnamed speaker in my statement.

      Rephrased: each asked American would describe liberal or conservative as capturing the entire spectrum, (left or right respectively) of what they consider center.

      All I mean is that the terms are most commonly used (in America) to capture damn near half of the spectrum.

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      3 months ago

      No one wants to consider themselves radicalized

      Speak for yourself buddy, proud owner of the “radical leftist” label here.