You'd lump Tim Pool as a centrist? I certainly wouldn't.

Then I think we need to make one because unfortunately there are a lot of people in this country who strongly identify with that aesthetic. I run into people constantly who are "I'm not into politics, but I know there's liars and idiots on both sides, and we really just need to settle down and have a conversation and agree on common sense stuff, like giving the military hundred of millions of dollars and subsidizing oil refineries and criminalizing homelessness." I think you could get these people to just as easily say "common sense stuff, like universal healthcare and safe injection sites and supporting the International Criminal Court," but they need a boring ass normie from the suburbs to tell them that's "normal."

Well that's true, though, right?

If you call yourself a centrist, but then support an interventionist policy that makes trans healthcare more difficult... you're probably just wrong about being a centrist.

The same applies the other way. If you support governmental protections for trans healthcare (broadly), and enshrining basic protections across state lines, you're, again, not a centrist.

The difference is that the latter group isn't ashamed, so they aren't hiding their opinions for the sake of being less controversial. We're proudly supporting our trans friends because good people don't take the middle ground when one side wants to e.g. prosecute their friends' doctors for providing healthcare across state lines.

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