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Having talked to many, many, many self-proclaimed centrists. A lot of them are either left- or right-wing moderates who don't want to claim a camp. Primarily because both sides are so polarized these days.

Did you know Elon Musk considers himself center left? Some people think he's a right wing nutjob. Plenty of right wingers think he's a leftist still.



A lot of the "centrists" that I know are economically right and socially left. Like the old joke, "I can't be a Democrat because I want to spend my own money. I can't be a Republican because of what I want to spend my money on!"

How do you assign left vs right in this case?


I think pretending like people can be divvied up in one direction or the other is part of the problem. Political sides arent so clear cut.


It's because he's a libertarian. He's on a totally different axis of the graph.


> Did you know Elon Musk considers himself center left?

Socialist, even: https://yellowhammernews.com/spacexs-elon-musk-im-a-socialis...

And the actual tweet: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1008013111058526209


His views have shifted somewhat, so I'm not 100% sure if he's still asserted support to these views recently.




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