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In reply to the discussion: I am a "CENTRIST" Democrat, have been for 46 years, and am proud to be so! [View all]George II
(67,782 posts)....a larger majority of Democrats.
I have been described over those years as both a "conservative" and a "communist". The fact is that I've never been called a "radical" or "far" anything. I've never been called "establishment", either.
There are no borders in the Democratic Party between the right, center, and left, and the dividing lines, such as they are, shift constantly. I guess I'm on the "left-leaning" side of the Democratic Party. But I'm not a purist, I don't demand that all members of my party agree with me 100% of the time on all issues, i.e., if they don't they're not "good" or "true" Democrats.
Inasmuch as anywhere from 60-80% of the members of the Democratic Party can be considered "centrist", being such is not a bad thing or impure.