Your way of thinking is correct, but you do realize that this way you will be able to "impose" an ideological label on everybody, no matter !

It is not my claim alone that "make it so".
I also tried to argue, and I regret not having convinced you. Someone at the center will be seen as conservative by the left and socialist by the right. Someone above the center as I position myself, is, in plus, a weird bird that no one really sees what it wants.

I don't think I displayed assumptions as such, but different situations that have several facets and I argued for considering all those facets. I'm not against immigrants, but I do think we should consider the locals' view of them and its causes (not always racism).
This is the kind of politically-neutral, rational argumenting that I claim myself of.

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by ValentinD (walentijn arobase free spot frança) on Sat Nov 22nd, 2008 at 07:12:48 AM EST
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ValentinD:
Someone at the center will be seen as conservative by the left and socialist by the right. Someone above the center as I position myself, is, in plus, a weird bird that no one really sees what it wants.

Center is not an un-ideological position. An absence of ideology would not be placable on a political scale.

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by A swedish kind of death on Sat Nov 22nd, 2008 at 07:25:06 AM EST
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... you're a centrist, he's an opportunist :-P

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by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Sat Nov 22nd, 2008 at 10:36:46 AM EST
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Careful, someone else already has copyright on that term - DoDo, if I remember well (so double-beware!) :)

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by ValentinD (walentijn arobase free spot frança) on Sat Nov 22nd, 2008 at 08:33:49 PM EST
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I said above the center. If you follow my different position, just like is the case with some politicians, they seem contradictory. Some look like left, others more center or right wing, others more like real-politik.

This doesn't show opportunism or maverick-ism, but exactly that we don't fit political scale, which is based on ideologies.

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by ValentinD (walentijn arobase free spot frança) on Sat Nov 22nd, 2008 at 08:36:40 PM EST
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