[felistoria]

It's amazing that we don't have a middle ground party. The compromise between left and right since they can't compromise on their own.

[whatshisface]

A lot of people would argue that they're both middle ground parties that pretend to have big differences for the show of it.

[tablespoon]

> A lot of people would argue that they're both middle ground parties that pretend to have big differences for the show of it.

Even though a lot of people argue that, if it weren't true things would be far worse. Despite the differences, there needs to be something resembling a governing consensus.

[Mizza]

Absolutely amazing you can look at the state of American politics and think "what we need here is more centrism".

[RhysU]

We do have centrist parties in general elections. The non-centrist tendencies arise in the primaries. Then the non-centrist primary voters get miffed after the general election on account of the centrist lurch to collect independent votes.

[tacocataco]

Most Democrats are right of center on the political spectrum. (IMO)