The problem isn't the term "centrist", it's the idea that there is are left and right sides at all. It's not even useful shorthand any more, if it ever was. Left and right are convenient labels that make it simple to bring entirely dissimilar issues into one ill-fitting whole , though, so they persist. Plus it's easier to entirely dismiss other people's arguments as entirely ideologically based, unlike one's own moderate and reasonable opinions based upon incontrovertible fact and logic.
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