Centrists are people who hear “both sides”, and then do a mental shortcut instead of being informed

I had to explain to my friend the other day how ICE works. He heard one side say they’re going after criminals, the other side said they’re going after illegal immigrants, and so his interpretation was that innocent people are getting wrapped up as they go after criminals

Which is obviously not the case, because who goes after criminals? The fucking police. Obviously. Then when the police are done with someone without citizenship, they ask ICE if they want them

That made him think, and he realized his position didn’t make any sense. He knew he was being lied to and tried to adjust for that, but there’s no underlying truth to be found.

And they’re mostly like that. Lots of people talk about needing to balance the far left and the far right to bring people together. When I drill people on what it means, who’s in the far left, they don’t know. Because there is no far left

Centrists aren’t usually bad people, they’re people bad at information gathering. It’s why it’s so unforgivable for Democrats to be so weak and adopt the framing of Republicans… They confirm the lies by giving ground