I don’t think they are “scheming” anything, scheming require to have some political orientation. For most of them, quoting Terry Pratchett, “they just want tomorrow to be identical as today”.
Bothsiding conflicts is the line of least resistance and least mental effort, think about some arguments you would present to discuss with the centrist and imagine (or just go to any social media to see) the most perfunctory, brain terminating cliche answer to those - this is centrism, they in fact don’t want to discuss this at all, if they engage, it is only because they see someone engage and feel uncomfortable seeing it so they try to shut that person up so that all is looking nice again and their jimmies remain unrustled.
I don’t think they are “scheming” anything, scheming require to have some political orientation. For most of them, quoting Terry Pratchett, “they just want tomorrow to be identical as today”.
Bothsiding conflicts is the line of least resistance and least mental effort, think about some arguments you would present to discuss with the centrist and imagine (or just go to any social media to see) the most perfunctory, brain terminating cliche answer to those - this is centrism, they in fact don’t want to discuss this at all, if they engage, it is only because they see someone engage and feel uncomfortable seeing it so they try to shut that person up so that all is looking nice again and their jimmies remain unrustled.
this. liberals, centrists, they want things to remain as they are, and willingly deny that things are already bad.
Immobilism/conservatism is a political opinion
Naturally, but they don’t think so, they think status quo is not politics, it’s just something that is, like air or gravity.