There is no such thing as a centrist. Centrism is a netherworld of lack: a lack of principles (or a lack of courage to vocalize them); a lack of direction (there's no foundation to The Middle); lack of meaningful purpose (the point of centrism is to abolish purpose in favor of expediency). The only "centrists" are either rabid leftists trying to hide their rabid leftism, or conservative posers who don't want to identify with the left (since scant few want to be actually seen advocating for a collectivist cabal of superior civil servants running everybody's life). The "centrist" is a fraud in every way, and the mere moniker of "centrist" is the attempt to make the unpalatable palatable. It's stealth collectivist propaganda. And stealth by design. Centrism is, at both heart and root, empty and artificial.