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It's worse than them being secretly right wing and hiding it. They are right wing yet can't admit it to themselves.
The reason that "the right" shits on "centrists," at least in the American context, is because "the right" is about as far right as the Nazis and the "centrists" ignore this obvious fact because they agree with them on certain issues.
I think you're under the impression that the Democrats are representative of the left, when that just isn't the case. A good chunk of the Democratic voting base hates their party because the party doesn't represent them that well. You make it seem like they are just supporting a team, when they are, in actuality, arguing for positions that are farther to the left than you can even comprehend.
The misunderstanding you have is that the Democrats are the left when they are actually fairly conservative.