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'Deep down, he's a terrified little boy': Bob Woodward, John Bolton and others on Trump
The authors of recent exposés, including Mary Trump and Anthony Scaramucci, on the president, his time in office – and what they expect to happen at the polls
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#TheWeekInTory
"Amazingly, this is my third #TheWeekInTory in 7 days, and if anybody wants to pay for me to go somewhere comparatively sane and relaxing for a week, I'm up for it.
I hear Mogadishu is nice.
Anyway, buckle up, here we go...
1. Previously on The Week In Tory: the govt campaigned for Brexit so we can "look after our own", and then immediately voted not to
2. Instead they opted to let up to 900,000 children go hungry during school holidays, including – bless you Santa Johnson – Christmas
3. In July, when the govt lifted the original lockdown, Rishi Sunak, the nicest Tory, tweeted "I can't wait to get back to the pub"
4. This week he voted to let thousands of kids starve, and as a result was barred for life from his local
5. Ben Bradley, a Tory MP and Al Murray character made of Lego, spent last week appealing for justice and opportunity for "working class white boys who have been left behind"
6. He then voted to deprive them of food
7. Then this stout defender of the working class said food vouchers for poor kids will just end up being used in brothels and crack dens
8. He said he knows kids living in these conditions, and yet, like a true humanitarian, he appears to have done absolutely nothing about it
9. He also overlooks the fact that the vouchers can only be used to buy food, and I've yet to find evidence that crack dens commonly set up a tuck shop
10. He then invited his critics to visit "one of the country's most deprived schools, who's Head agrees with me"
11. The school's governors replied to say neither they, nor the Head, agreed with him
12. It's Monday, and most experts estimate that by Wednesday afternoon, Ben Bradley will have dug himself a hole deep enough to see kangaroos
13. Tory MP Gary Sambrook said it was OK for kids to go hungry during holidays, because they've "been benefiting from free school meals during term time". It will come as a shock to Sambrook to discover humans require food on quite a regular basis
14. Tory peer Baroness Barran went on radio and said Tories had done other things to help poor children, such as extra money for emergency Universal Credit
15. So the govt announced it was reducing emergency Universal Credit by £20 a week
16. Tory MP Selaine Saxby said if businesses help starving kids she "very much hopes they will not be seeking any further govt support"
17. Selaine Saxby consistently votes against measures to reduce tax avoidance, cos avoiding tax is the sort of govt support she's fine with
18. McDonalds offered 1m free meals over half term, proving to the govt that it is possible for clowns to make moral decisions
19. At a Downing St press conference, the govt repeatedly declined invitations from the media to praise businesses providing meals to hungry children
20. Matt Hancock said local councils had been provided with "a huge amount of extra investment" to feed kids
21. Since 2010, Tories cut funding to local councils by 60%
22. The Tory council in Boris Johnson's own constituency joined the campaign to give free school meals
23. Matt Hancock, a sentient teaspoon and ever-dependable master of detail, went on radio and said there had been "lines of communication" between Boris Johnson and Marcus Rashford
24. Marcus Rashford said there hadn't
25. 2000 paediatricians condemned the govt
26. The Children's Commissioner it was "like something out of the pages of Oliver Twist"
27. An anonymous Tory MP said it was a "political disaster" and he had "never known so many Conservative MPs and council leaders so angry"
28. Senior Tory MP Sir Bernard Jenkin said the govt had "misunderstood the mood of the country"
29. Tobias Ellwood, Tory MP and spine-donor, voted with the govt, but is now openly calling for the policy to change
30. Multiple Tory MPs have predicted a U-turn, which means at least the govt won't go hungry over the holidays: it'll have all those lovely words to eat
31. And then, cos they don't know when to stop, the govt cut the laptop allocation for England's most deprived schools by 80%
32. In a not-at-all-obvious attempt to distract attention, 112 Tory MPs (98% of whom had just voted to let children starve at Christmas) wrote to Keir Starmer to complain of the "widespread abuse" they received as a result of Angela Rayner calling one of them "scum"
33. They must have been unable to find a pen and paper when there was a 375% increase in Islamophobic incidents after Boris Johnson referred to Muslim women as "letterboxes" and "bank robbers"
34. They were probably having difficulty with a gummed-up biro when Boris Johnson called gay men "bum boys". or said black people were "picaninnies with watermelon smiles", or said in parliament that proven death threats against female Labour MPs were "humbug"
35. And perhaps they didn't have an address for Home Secretary and Thor's sister Priti Patel after she made an incendiary speech attacking "lefty" immigration lawyers, one of who was stabbed 4 days later by a far-right activist
36. Speaking of witch – tsk, me and my spelling – more than 800 lawyers and judges wrote to the govt demanding an apology from Priti Patel, and saying her "rhetoric and hostility" risks "undermining the rule of law"
37. After demanding local councils "build build build", Michael Gove personally stepped in to oppose building in his constituency
38. There's a fine line between spin and outright lies, and that is just one of many lines Michael Gove has caused to disappear
39. The govt confirmed it was going to start charging 20% VAT on PPE. In a pandemic
40. The govt said it would be fine, cos care homes can claim back the VAT
41. But the govt's own advice says "Care homes … are unlikely to be able to recover any VAT on PPE"
42. Rishi Sunak said he would provide the NHS with "whatever resources it needs" to cope with the pandemic, which is why the NHS is £1bn short of funds needed to pay wages to the end of the year
43. SAGE said Test and Trace, the centrepiece of our Covid strategy, was "having only a marginal impact"
44. Test and Trace system achieved new heroic heights, as it was revealed of 268m records, just 104 cases had been pursued
45. Labour's NHS IT System was described by Tories as "one of the worse scandals ever in terms of waste of public money", costing £12bn over 6 years
46. By contrast, the Test and Trace system has spent £12bn in just 4 months and failed to meet a single target set for it
47. Tory MP Bernard Jenkin called for Dido Harding to be sacked
48. Matt Hancock said he had (finally) published the highly critical 2016 report into the UK's lack of preparedness for a pandemic, which his dept had seen and then done nothing at all to act upon
49. Due to some terrible and entirely unpredictable oversight, the version he published was incomplete and heavily redacted, cos that's exactly what you'd do if it wasn't massively embarrassing
50. Only 211 days since South Korea started mandatory test and quarantine at its airports, the UK govt announced plans to do the same
51. Except unlike South Korea we'll charge people for tests
53. Deaths per million in South Korea: 8
54. Deaths per million in UK: 665
54. It was then reported that Bankers and Hedge Fund Managers would be exempt from quarantine because obviously the virus, a non-living sub-microscopic entity with no brain or nervous system, will figure out how rich you are before deciding whether to infect you
55. Boris Johnson held a meeting with UK business leaders, and urged them to follow the govt's guidance in preparing for Brexit
56. The govt hasn't agreed a deal, so has not yet issued final guidance for preparing for Brexit
57. Then it was reported Boris Johnson won't make a decision about whether to accept a Brexit deal until he finds out if Trump has won the election, because an important part of Taking Back Control is not being able to decide a thing until we find out what Donald is up to
58. Assuming the election happens cleanly (and Trump is involved, so god knows) this leaves businesses just 31 working days to implement a plan for the end of a 41 year period of stability, in the middle of a pandemic that most believe will be at the peak of its second wave
59. But huzzah! the govt announced a deal with Japan that was "even better than the one Japan has with the EU"
60. But whoops! the EU/Japan deal prevents either side from offering better terms to anybody else, and our deal with Japan is 5% of the one we lose with the EU
61. The former ambassador to USA (under both Tory and Labour govts) said the UK's plans for handling a Joe Biden presidency are "profoundly clumsy and stupid" and that "Number 10 is absolutely clueless" about how to manage a post-Brexit relationship with the USA
62. Between them, the EU and USA account for around 60% of the UK's total trade, so deliberately losing one, and then accidentally losing another is definitely a reason to be intensely relaxed about the whole thing
63. And that's why, spurred by their stunning victory over UK trade, a group of Tory MPs led by Steve Baker, a scale model of C3P0 made entirely out of ham, is urging the formation of a "European Research Group for the pandemic"
Gas and air, please. In heroic quantities"
#TheWeekInTory
"Amazingly, this is my third #TheWeekInTory in 7 days, and if anybody wants to pay for me to go somewhere comparatively sane and relaxing for a week, I'm up for it.
I hear Mogadishu is nice.
Anyway, buckle up, here we go...
1. Previously on The Week In Tory: the govt campaigned for Brexit so we can "look after our own", and then immediately voted not to
2. Instead they opted to let up to 900,000 children go hungry during school holidays, including – bless you Santa Johnson – Christmas
3. In July, when the govt lifted the original lockdown, Rishi Sunak, the nicest Tory, tweeted "I can't wait to get back to the pub"
4. This week he voted to let thousands of kids starve, and as a result was barred for life from his local
5. Ben Bradley, a Tory MP and Al Murray character made of Lego, spent last week appealing for justice and opportunity for "working class white boys who have been left behind"
6. He then voted to deprive them of food
7. Then this stout defender of the working class said food vouchers for poor kids will just end up being used in brothels and crack dens
8. He said he knows kids living in these conditions, and yet, like a true humanitarian, he appears to have done absolutely nothing about it
9. He also overlooks the fact that the vouchers can only be used to buy food, and I've yet to find evidence that crack dens commonly set up a tuck shop
10. He then invited his critics to visit "one of the country's most deprived schools, who's Head agrees with me"
11. The school's governors replied to say neither they, nor the Head, agreed with him
12. It's Monday, and most experts estimate that by Wednesday afternoon, Ben Bradley will have dug himself a hole deep enough to see kangaroos
13. Tory MP Gary Sambrook said it was OK for kids to go hungry during holidays, because they've "been benefiting from free school meals during term time". It will come as a shock to Sambrook to discover humans require food on quite a regular basis
14. Tory peer Baroness Barran went on radio and said Tories had done other things to help poor children, such as extra money for emergency Universal Credit
15. So the govt announced it was reducing emergency Universal Credit by £20 a week
16. Tory MP Selaine Saxby said if businesses help starving kids she "very much hopes they will not be seeking any further govt support"
17. Selaine Saxby consistently votes against measures to reduce tax avoidance, cos avoiding tax is the sort of govt support she's fine with
18. McDonalds offered 1m free meals over half term, proving to the govt that it is possible for clowns to make moral decisions
19. At a Downing St press conference, the govt repeatedly declined invitations from the media to praise businesses providing meals to hungry children
20. Matt Hancock said local councils had been provided with "a huge amount of extra investment" to feed kids
21. Since 2010, Tories cut funding to local councils by 60%
22. The Tory council in Boris Johnson's own constituency joined the campaign to give free school meals
23. Matt Hancock, a sentient teaspoon and ever-dependable master of detail, went on radio and said there had been "lines of communication" between Boris Johnson and Marcus Rashford
24. Marcus Rashford said there hadn't
25. 2000 paediatricians condemned the govt
26. The Children's Commissioner it was "like something out of the pages of Oliver Twist"
27. An anonymous Tory MP said it was a "political disaster" and he had "never known so many Conservative MPs and council leaders so angry"
28. Senior Tory MP Sir Bernard Jenkin said the govt had "misunderstood the mood of the country"
29. Tobias Ellwood, Tory MP and spine-donor, voted with the govt, but is now openly calling for the policy to change
30. Multiple Tory MPs have predicted a U-turn, which means at least the govt won't go hungry over the holidays: it'll have all those lovely words to eat
31. And then, cos they don't know when to stop, the govt cut the laptop allocation for England's most deprived schools by 80%
32. In a not-at-all-obvious attempt to distract attention, 112 Tory MPs (98% of whom had just voted to let children starve at Christmas) wrote to Keir Starmer to complain of the "widespread abuse" they received as a result of Angela Rayner calling one of them "scum"
33. They must have been unable to find a pen and paper when there was a 375% increase in Islamophobic incidents after Boris Johnson referred to Muslim women as "letterboxes" and "bank robbers"
34. They were probably having difficulty with a gummed-up biro when Boris Johnson called gay men "bum boys". or said black people were "picaninnies with watermelon smiles", or said in parliament that proven death threats against female Labour MPs were "humbug"
35. And perhaps they didn't have an address for Home Secretary and Thor's sister Priti Patel after she made an incendiary speech attacking "lefty" immigration lawyers, one of who was stabbed 4 days later by a far-right activist
36. Speaking of witch – tsk, me and my spelling – more than 800 lawyers and judges wrote to the govt demanding an apology from Priti Patel, and saying her "rhetoric and hostility" risks "undermining the rule of law"
37. After demanding local councils "build build build", Michael Gove personally stepped in to oppose building in his constituency
38. There's a fine line between spin and outright lies, and that is just one of many lines Michael Gove has caused to disappear
39. The govt confirmed it was going to start charging 20% VAT on PPE. In a pandemic
40. The govt said it would be fine, cos care homes can claim back the VAT
41. But the govt's own advice says "Care homes … are unlikely to be able to recover any VAT on PPE"
42. Rishi Sunak said he would provide the NHS with "whatever resources it needs" to cope with the pandemic, which is why the NHS is £1bn short of funds needed to pay wages to the end of the year
43. SAGE said Test and Trace, the centrepiece of our Covid strategy, was "having only a marginal impact"
44. Test and Trace system achieved new heroic heights, as it was revealed of 268m records, just 104 cases had been pursued
45. Labour's NHS IT System was described by Tories as "one of the worse scandals ever in terms of waste of public money", costing £12bn over 6 years
46. By contrast, the Test and Trace system has spent £12bn in just 4 months and failed to meet a single target set for it
47. Tory MP Bernard Jenkin called for Dido Harding to be sacked
48. Matt Hancock said he had (finally) published the highly critical 2016 report into the UK's lack of preparedness for a pandemic, which his dept had seen and then done nothing at all to act upon
49. Due to some terrible and entirely unpredictable oversight, the version he published was incomplete and heavily redacted, cos that's exactly what you'd do if it wasn't massively embarrassing
50. Only 211 days since South Korea started mandatory test and quarantine at its airports, the UK govt announced plans to do the same
51. Except unlike South Korea we'll charge people for tests
53. Deaths per million in South Korea: 8
54. Deaths per million in UK: 665
54. It was then reported that Bankers and Hedge Fund Managers would be exempt from quarantine because obviously the virus, a non-living sub-microscopic entity with no brain or nervous system, will figure out how rich you are before deciding whether to infect you
55. Boris Johnson held a meeting with UK business leaders, and urged them to follow the govt's guidance in preparing for Brexit
56. The govt hasn't agreed a deal, so has not yet issued final guidance for preparing for Brexit
57. Then it was reported Boris Johnson won't make a decision about whether to accept a Brexit deal until he finds out if Trump has won the election, because an important part of Taking Back Control is not being able to decide a thing until we find out what Donald is up to
58. Assuming the election happens cleanly (and Trump is involved, so god knows) this leaves businesses just 31 working days to implement a plan for the end of a 41 year period of stability, in the middle of a pandemic that most believe will be at the peak of its second wave
59. But huzzah! the govt announced a deal with Japan that was "even better than the one Japan has with the EU"
60. But whoops! the EU/Japan deal prevents either side from offering better terms to anybody else, and our deal with Japan is 5% of the one we lose with the EU
61. The former ambassador to USA (under both Tory and Labour govts) said the UK's plans for handling a Joe Biden presidency are "profoundly clumsy and stupid" and that "Number 10 is absolutely clueless" about how to manage a post-Brexit relationship with the USA
62. Between them, the EU and USA account for around 60% of the UK's total trade, so deliberately losing one, and then accidentally losing another is definitely a reason to be intensely relaxed about the whole thing
63. And that's why, spurred by their stunning victory over UK trade, a group of Tory MPs led by Steve Baker, a scale model of C3P0 made entirely out of ham, is urging the formation of a "European Research Group for the pandemic"
Gas and air, please. In heroic quantities"
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It's sad though, people will read through all that and still shrug their shoulders and go "yeh but Labour wulda dun worse!"
Really have to question where the line is for some people. Trump has shown there is a sizeable segment of the population where the line probably lies somewhere after political violence.
Really have to question where the line is for some people. Trump has shown there is a sizeable segment of the population where the line probably lies somewhere after political violence.
I've got a question for anyone more knowledgeable. What is the redaction process when publishing a report? Basically I feel that reports that look negatively into government actions/handling etc... which are then published by said government are pointless as they seem to end up being parts redacted, withheld or just not published at all. We all know how corrupt this current government is, but it seems to be getting worse. What I don't know is how much power/influence the government has on choosing what is redacted and what is not and under what rules information can be redacted. I understand redacting birthdates, addresses and other personal information etc... but in some of these reports whole paragraphs or sections are redacted. Anyone know a bit more on the process and just how much it is being abused by politicians to hide their own failings?
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lol at JK.
I've never been involved in the process but my understanding is as well as personal information it's meant to be anything that is considered a security risk of out in the open. That can be personally information but there can be intelligence and things you don't want other nations to know you know and that's when massive areas get redacted. You can compromise ongoing and future operations. That stuff is generally redacted by several intelligence officers. How much say the politicians gets is unknown and image there is push back. Look at the infamous dodgy dossier that led to the UK involvement in Iraq that clearly had political pressure as Downing Street clearly wanted some parts more prominent than other for the case they were presenting.
If something is redacted they do err on the side of caution. My dealings with UK ones is they extremely cautious in letting you know anything. The US ones tend to way more open. It's the extent in the UK that even if you have the level clearance for the meeting people with higher clearance won't talk to you or let you in just in case the meeting deviates and they prefer to have everyone at the same level. So if a politician does push it's likely they'll get it redacted if just about justified.
So yeah I'd take it all with a pinch of salt that it can't be released. But these people are ultra conscious of not letting things slip.
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Indian child poverty charity offers free school meals in England
Akshaya Patra, which feeds millions in India, opens first of three planned kitchens
www.theguardian.com
A charity that feeds millions of poor children in India has joined the drive to end holiday hunger in England and distributed its first meals from a new kitchen in Watford.
Hot vegetarian dishes cooked for less than £2 each using a model developed to feed the hungry in cities such as Mumbai and Ahmedabad were dispatched to a school in north London on Tuesday amid growing pressure on the government to reverse its decision not to fund free school meals this half-term.
Akshaya Patra, which feeds millions in India, opens first of three planned kitchens
Indian child poverty charity offers free school meals in England
Akshaya Patra, which feeds millions in India, opens first of three planned kitchens
A charity that feeds millions of poor children in India has joined the drive to end holiday hunger in England and distributed its first meals from a new kitchen in Watford.
Hot vegetarian dishes cooked for less than £2 each using a model developed to feed the hungry in cities such as Mumbai and Ahmedabad were dispatched to a school in north London on Tuesday amid growing pressure on the government to reverse its decision not to fund free school meals this half-term.
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It's staggering that of all the things and all the times the government would decide to really dig its heels in it would be this issue at this time. Which genius thought "hungry children during a pandemic that would cost us pennies in the grand scheme of things to fix? Yeah let's do that!"Indian child poverty charity offers free school meals in England
Akshaya Patra, which feeds millions in India, opens first of three planned kitchens
Indian child poverty charity offers free school meals in England
Akshaya Patra, which feeds millions in India, opens first of three planned kitchens
A charity that feeds millions of poor children in India has joined the drive to end holiday hunger in England and distributed its first meals from a new kitchen in Watford.
Hot vegetarian dishes cooked for less than £2 each using a model developed to feed the hungry in cities such as Mumbai and Ahmedabad were dispatched to a school in north London on Tuesday amid growing pressure on the government to reverse its decision not to fund free school meals this half-term.
Maybe Cummings is proposing the hatchlings fend for themselves so only the strong may survive.
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Don't forget...
In the run-up to Christmas
And whilst we're at it, let's take their laptops away
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In other news...
Trump says militia that sought to kidnap and kill Michigan's Gov. Whitmer was 'maybe a problem, maybe it wasn't'
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/tr...v-whitmer-was-maybe-a-problem-maybe-it-wasnt/
In a startling moment during his Michigan rally Tuesday, President Donald Trump implied that the militia that attempted to kidnap and kill Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) was maybe or maybe not all that big of a problem.
"People are entitled to say maybe it was a problem, maybe it wasn't," Trump told his rally.
It's a commonly used tactic by Trump to say things like "people say" or "some say" or raise hypotheticals so that it gives him the ability to say "I don't think that, people do." But he has never been able to cite the actual person that said that to him.
Trump says militia that sought to kidnap and kill Michigan's Gov. Whitmer was 'maybe a problem, maybe it wasn't'
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/tr...v-whitmer-was-maybe-a-problem-maybe-it-wasnt/
In a startling moment during his Michigan rally Tuesday, President Donald Trump implied that the militia that attempted to kidnap and kill Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) was maybe or maybe not all that big of a problem.
"People are entitled to say maybe it was a problem, maybe it wasn't," Trump told his rally.
It's a commonly used tactic by Trump to say things like "people say" or "some say" or raise hypotheticals so that it gives him the ability to say "I don't think that, people do." But he has never been able to cite the actual person that said that to him.
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Where Do You Sit Politically? Take the test here (and print out a certificate afterwards if you like), it took me about 10 minutes.
www.politicalcompass.org
The Political Compass
A typology of political opinions plotted on 2 dimensions: economic and social.
www.politicalcompass.org
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The closer it gets the more worried I am about a civil war. In the same state a judge has reversed a decisions to ban open carry near polling stations.
Judge strikes down Benson order banning open carry of guns at Michigan polling places
Secretary Benson's directive, issued Oct. 16, banned the open carry of guns on Election Day at or near polling places and related buildings.
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Hmm I'm going to have a stab in the dark and say you must clearly fall into the orange category on the far right labelled "special Trump section", just a hunchWhere Do You Sit Politically? Take the test here (and print out a certificate afterwards if you like), it took me about 10 minutes.
The Political Compass
A typology of political opinions plotted on 2 dimensions: economic and social.
Should say political compass use to be quite interesting but its been around a lot longer than its historical data suggests. Its use to put the LD's slightly left of center and about on Green's on Liberatarian fronts. This was back in Charles Kennedy days when things like national ID cards were massively on the agenda. But have the LD's in terms of thier ideology gone more authortarian as a party? They certainly moved rightwards under Clegg but there was little shift on Liberalism. I also find that laughable against Labour under any of their leaders in recent years especially considering the amount vitriol towards dissenting opinion they spew out.
So whilst it might be useful to where you personally sit take where the parties sit with a pinch of salt. Its felt like for a long time it run by leftish person with an axe to grind.
So whilst it might be useful to where you personally sit take where the parties sit with a pinch of salt. Its felt like for a long time it run by leftish person with an axe to grind.
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You know I can't stand Trump, so I didn't even chuckle at your joke. According to the test I'm a Centrist. And I think that sums me up correctly. It's a good test.Hmm I'm going to have a stab in the dark and say you must clearly fall into the orange category on the far right labelled "special Trump section", just a hunch
What is Centrist/Centrism
Centrists don't have party lines. Centrists believe that solutions are more important than bias. While there is no set rule for what a Centrist is, there are some generally accepted guidelines that seem to depict the Centrist mode of thought. Centrism is a political ideology based on reason and pragmatism considerate of short and long term thinking - Centrism is not defined by compromise or moderation, it is considerate of them. Centrism is about achieving common sense solutions that appropriately address current and future needs; support the public trust; and serve the common good with consideration of risk and capacity in context of these needs.
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This election will see how many moderates there are left in the USA who are willing to kick Trump out of office.
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That's me!
Voters who describe themselves as centrist often mean that they are moderate in their political views, advocating neither extreme left-wing politics nor extreme right-wing politics. Gallup polling has shown American voters identifying themselves as moderate between 35–38% of the time over the last 20 years.
I agree, it also gives a very broad picture, but often lacks specifics. I was very left and libertarian, but I would see myself as someone who is closer to centrist. Depending on individual topics I would sometimes lean more right wing. For example I'm all for increasing surveillance if we could ensure it was not abused by those in power because saving even one more person from being killed/raped etc... is more important than people's perception that they are free. However the issues are how it is used and that current systems are heavily flawed. For example facial recognition. Great in theory, but completely flawed in practise.
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