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Thanks. I suppose I should add I'm not American. Perhaps the takeaway is no two-party political system, such as in the US, can have a "political center" because the respective "left" and "right" parties seem inevitably to become opposed to each other on every issue? Things are different in Europe, where multiple parties can support the same policies, but to different degrees or funded differently.
Plenty of EU political parties which are labelled center-right on Wikipedia aren't completely dead-set on destroying the entire social safety in the same way the Republicans are in the US, for example. Although they simultaneously might call for reduced benefits and lower taxes.
Also, many EU countries have what I would consider actual left-wing parties in parliament. On some issues I would consider myself slightly right of Germany's "Die Linke" for example.
Ah fascinating, thanks for sharing all that. Yes for sure you may be a centrist in Europe but here in the States you would be far left.