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Okay but some of them are in power right in front of you and vastly more bloodthirsty and likely to be responsible for your misery.
I personally live in Russia.
Why not?
You're so right, centrism must be the correct answer🥴. Let us all just pretend that both sides equally bad while passively support right wing reactionaries😍
"extremism" is distance from the status quo, it doesn't have inherent properties in terms of the outcome because it is a relative term.
What you are doing is employing the argument to moderation fallacy as if some golden middle point is always the correct answer. Communists and anarchists are the only people who care about my rights, liberals and centrist only care about me when it is time to virtue signal for votes and then do nothing for me. Being a centrist is the most selfish, ignorant and privileged position to take, you try to act like you don't support the far-right but being a centrist and doing nothing only serves the current hierarchies in place which harm marginalized groups.
Radlibs are centrists who like progressive consumer-lifestyle politics. "Anarchists" are either radlibs or extremists.
Sure feels like a centrist when you equate far-left and far-right🤷♀️
Yah, like a centrist... crazy how that works.