don't you think being liberal or being conservative is what puts you on either side of the center line? Maybe it's possible to be a centrist who straddles the line, but when you look at the greatly divergent POV's that the sides have taken, it's actually hard to see how one does that, unless it's just an attitude without much motivation and substantiation behind it. You chose Biden. Of course, your only other choice was someone you had no intention of ever voting for, so you aligned with the liberals. I don't see it as any different in our politics in general. You are repelled (repulsed?) by what the other side in general stands for, so you choose the side, extremes and all, that most nearly matches your outlook.
And I grit my teeth when someone says 'if we could only find it within ourselves to compromise, we could get things done.'. Well yeah, sure, you could get things done that you are dead set against. To me, compromise is bullshit. If you believe in something, stand behind it.
If our system was different and a third party had an honest chance to gain traction, I'd do some line straddling myself as a libertarian. The problem with that is, the term libertarian covers almost as much territory as the two major parties do. I think it would end up being the same dilemma, except I don't think there would be much of a center line to be on either side of. More like a matrix.
