Holding views that are fatal to modern society while enjoying its benefits… So hot right now! Maybe they’ll keep the dead half-husk of democracy that has all their stuff!

  • @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
    0•1 year ago

    Never be a centrist because it means you have no convictions of your own. Don’t be a political weather vane.

    • @Globulart@lemmy.world
      9•1 year ago

      Have convictions about the shit you know about. But be prepared to change your mind on stuff you aren’t an expert in.

      I wonder how many people that strongly align to the left or right actually understand the detail behind the policies they defend so vociferously, 99% of people people are just parroting what their party tells them to say from what I can see.

      Your opinion on climate change or whatever is the latest hot topic doesn’t mean shit. Reading an article from your biased politically motivated “journal” doesn’t mean shit. Listening to the actual experts and forming an opinion based on that DOES mean something, and it’s got fucking nothing to do with politics.

      • darq
        3•1 year ago

        I have never met a self-described centrist who was doing any critical thinking. And I say that as a former centrist who was not engaging in critical thinking.

        It’s almost always “there are two sides to this issue, and because there are two sides there must be some merit to both, so thinking that one side is right or wrong is bad, and so anybody holding particularly strong convictions one way or another must not be thinking critically”. Which if you noticed, is a line of reasoning that doesn’t actually engage with reality or the nuances of the situation at all. It’s just a thought-terminating cliche that leads to not thinking about an issue, but then concluding that one is more enlightened than people who hold strong beliefs.

        The second I actually started getting informed and thinking critically, I shifted drastically in my politics.