Should independents and centrists stay in the middle or be indifferent to all issues?

[SmokinAces2000]

[Syntosi]

If you dont take a side then you won't have any power. Trying to be "reasonable" and whatnot basically just means you give away all your power and let others control your life.

[DryGermanGuy]

For me it means I vote for both conservative parties and issues and progressive parties and issues, depending on the topic.

[SotiCoto]

I sense a political bias in the picture.
In any case... I'm hard Anarchist. Not sure if that counts as "centrist" in your view... But "compromise" is bullshit because from where I'm looking, both the Left-Wing and Right-Wing are the same Collectivist Authoritarian idiots looking to stamp out freedom for everyone. When something new is made illegal it is usually the regular people who suffer for it. I'm sick of being legally imprisoned by the Government and financially imprisoned by Corporations.

Just throw all the Marxists and Capitalists in a pit and let them fight to the death. Then burn anyone who survives. That way everyone wins.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

I'm VERY interested in how you can view anarchism as a separate philosophy from marxism & capitalism. It can't be anarchism right side of the tracks, because you took down capitalism. It can't be anarchism left side of the tracks, because you took down collectivism. So what is left?
Nihilism...
Anomie...

Please explain

[IamRight]

In my opinion they should do the right thing and support the Right instead of supporting leftists. But since the leftists went so far left that most actual centrists became right leaning without changing their opinions, most modern centrists are actually just leftists.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Please explain the philosophy of these independents, and also what you mean with centrism. I view centrism, for my location, as right wing about economy related policies, and left wing about civil rights.

[goaded]

Have you actually seen what happens to the US economy under Republican rule?

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

hmmm if I implied that I was interested in right wing economy related policies, it was unintended lol

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

I mean, I'm interested in knowing them, but not carrying them

[beefcakebradybatson]

All decent people MUST speak out against the current Trump-led trampling of the U. S. Constitution and civil rights of a multitude of unpopular people. Silence in the face of injustice is aquiesence to injustice.

[seeyounexttuesday]

Can you compromise with the democrats in their sheet costumes?

[SmokinAces2000]

If I saw a democrat in a kkk outfit no I wouldn’t compromise with them

[seeyounexttuesday]

lol, but you vote democrat.

[SmokinAces2000]

Democrats haven’t been the party that the kkk supports or endorses or vice versa in decades. I would probably never vote republican unless they did a complete turnaround from what they are now.

[seeyounexttuesday]

Right, now the dems hide their bigotry with low expectation.

[SmokinAces2000]

Mhmm and republicans shout their bigotry from the rooftops and then play victim when they are called racist. The funny thing is the shit that republicans call democrats racist for 9 time outta 10 aren’t even valid. Most of the US is racist anyway regardless of political party but there are always levels to it. Difference between democrats and republicans is democrats are ignorantly racist but it’s not coming from a place of hate. Typically they also acknowledge that they have biases and everyone has biases and they try to be mindful. Racism from Republicans come from hate and propaganda. Republicans literally cry when they aren’t allowed to say racist shit on certain platforms so I don’t want to hear democrat this or liberal that. Independents don’t win shit so for now I’d rather vote for a side that tries to work on their biases rather than a side that normalizes them and sees nothing wrong with them.

[seeyounexttuesday]

lmao. if you don't vote for Biden you ain't black, lol.

[SmokinAces2000]

All you could take away from what I said hmm 😂

[IamRight]

@seeyounexttuesday You can’t compromise with them, if you try they will either shut up or weasel attempt to weasel their way out before shutting up. For example, here is a video of Trump actually lying. https://www.youtube.com/embed/7WMOKRJZvHQ
Every damn time I have tried to get a "Trump always lies" person to agree he lied in this video, they either shut up or agrees with Trump here.

[DrPepper12]

Act like they have control they don't realize they gave

[Sal_Monella]

It means they don't use critical thinking. They, just go with the flow.