What I've learned with politics

1. The small party.  This party sticks up for the rights of small groups (small is a broad term).  They call these groups, "minorities", but the 1% are a minority; this group isn't too much of a fan of the 1% because yes, they are a minority, but they have a lot of power (aka, they're big).  Women aren't a minority, but they are smaller in power than men, so this group tends to back women.  Elementary School teachers tend to back the small party because they work with small and weak people.  A high school track coach that has their team win the most championships is expected to lean differently.
   
2. The big party.  This party sticks up for big groups (whether it's whites, men, rich people, Christians).
   
3. The balls and strikes party; that doesn't care if you're big or small, they will advocate for you by calling it like they see it.  They're political umpires, basically.

I aint gonna be part of any balls.

Thank you RemyBrown for figuring it all out and we can stop debating and join the balls and strikes party

It would be great if everyone was a member of the Balls and strikes party

They start with the presumption that democrats are biased towards the left and republicans are biased towards the right, so they're going to sit above it all in their unbiased middle and call out both parties evenly.

The problem here is that these people don't seem to believe in anything. Their core value seems to be criticizing both parties, so they are constantly equivocating. Neutrality and objectivity are not the same thing.

I am not for any of the parties. I have been on my own and always have been and always will be.  All the federal govt does is start wars, make shit cost more and make earning a living harder. The federal govt is totally useless to me. The leadership in federal govt just tells me what a useless POS they think I am and how I am a threat to it.   Local and state govts are all that matter to me.  

I'm not sure if this is where you were coming from, but when I read this it comes off as an argument made for the "enlightened centrist", which I find contemptable.

I'm criticizing the idea to which you didn't refute describes you.

Again, it's not about what side you're on on any issue or even broadly, it's about whether you actually believe anything at all or are just standing on the hill pretending to be better than everyone else cause you're above it all.

An enlightened centrist is better than a MAGA republican, but still contemptable as far as I am concerned. 

If you think "enlightened centrism" is despicable, then I don't agree, but me refuting it is pointless because I know it won't change your mind.

If I said anything not left wing is contemptable to you, then would that be accurate?

No. I respect the views of plenty of people I disagree with, on this site Thett comes to mind. If you followed what I explained, I never attacked centrism. Being in the middle doesn't make you an "enlightened centrist". The term is used to point to someone who focuses more on being above both sides than holding any particular beliefs or holding any real values. Again, the core value for this kind of person seems to be to place themselves above anyone who strongly favors one side over the other. If that's you, then that is what I find contemptable.

The term is used to point to someone who focuses more on being above both sides than holding any particular beliefs or holding any real values. Again, the core value for this kind of person seems to be to place themselves above anyone who strongly favors one side over the other. If that's you, then that is what I find contemptable.

1. American expansionism (the US should annex Canada, Greenland, Gulf of America, Bahamas, Belize, Guyana)
   
2. TWAW
   
3. Abortion should be federally legal for the whole 9 months.
   
4. Murderers and similarly bad people should be beheaded without painkillers.
   
5. There should be a ban on welfare and everyone on welfare should get a job (and if that's a government job, then fine).
   
6. Social libertarianism (very different from social leftism; I don't care if you own an AR 15, use the N word if you're white, say offensive speech).
   
7. Medicare for all should be a state and local issue.
   
8. Pro Israel (even with military funding that I would not give to Ukraine because they give America nuclear strike protection with Hetz and Ukraine doesn't do anything comparable).