| Pemalite said: I consider myself neither. I am in the middle. |
Ever thought that people who identify as left-wing or right-wing have weighed up the pros and cons, and just use those classifications as a quicker way to organize themselves and to find like-minded people? Being left-wing doesn't mean I'll agree with everything every left-wing person says. In fact, I'll probably have a lot more in common with a centre-right socially liberal person than with a left-wing anarcho-communist, for example.
I don't think being a centrist is a virtue—from my experience, it's more commonly just a label that people who think they're superior use to appear intellectual and politically aware. I'm not saying that's what you're doing, but maybe think of being in the middle as just as much of a position as being left-wing or right-wing. None of those imply that you don't weigh up the pros and cons on every argument, they just represent which side you tend to agree with more.
