I consider myself a "centrist" because there is no single doctrine with whom I agree fully. My mistake. I didn’t say people don’t have their reasons for being moderates/centrists. I just don’t accept the reasoning (which is normally that we should ‘all just get along’, which doesn’t help at all, in my opinion). The reasoning that no single doctrine is correct, or that you do not fully agree with, I would think is less of a centrist belief, which tends to be less that, and more a rejection of both left and right, and is pragmatism more than anything "Compromise" is a form of diplomacy - it is not a philosophy. You're mixing up terms here. I agree, doctrine would’ve probably been a better term to refer to ‘compromise’ or a tenet of the centrist doctrine. As in, the idea that compromise between two parties is a central part of a ‘doctrine’ of centrism No single doctrine of thought is uniquely guilty of this, least of all centrists and moderates who technically are not subscribers to a doctrine of thought to begin with. Centrism is a ‘doctrine of thought’. It’s one that holds that moderation is better than radical action, a doctrine I do not accept. However, you have given me cause to question my dismissal of centrist politics. My view has changed somewhat, that’s deserving of a Delta point ∆