# Debate about Centrists and US politics

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [May 29, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debate-about-centrists-and-us-politics/498074 "2009-05-29T19:54:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debate-about-centrists-and-us-politics/498074/21 "2009-06-01T02:29:47Z")

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> [@jtgain](#):
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> And, incidentally, you would have been on the winning side both times. Centrists usually get what they want, while the right and left rarely do..

Agreed. The ever-so-slightly-left-of-center voter has been getting whatever he wants in the long term for 230 years of American history. Which I’m good with.

Now, _true_ independents- those **furt** describes, too far left for the Democrats or too far right for the Republicans- have been getting shafted 230 years, which I’m okay with, too.

Honestly, I’ve felt for a long time that if the Libertarian Party didn’t keep nominating overwrought ex-Republicans as its candidates it would start winning Congressional seats. Unfortunately, its current leadership seem to feel that Libertarian means “against big government, but alright with pot.”

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