Unpopular opinion: It's better to have your principles well defined (even socialist ones) than to be a centrist who grabs onto anything just because he believes it works
Discussion
In real life I don't personally know a single centrist that hasn't had to fight for their values at some stage, but I know hundreds of lefties, even hardcore socialists, that flip flop with their alleged values. Lefties are just sheep without any principles.
A centrist has no clear principles, easily corruptible people is another issue
Centrist in what sense?
Sometimes the more libertarian you lean the more centrist you become.
A focus on individual rights and minimal government means less alignment with traditional left or right ideologies.
I agree, but I think it takes us out of that obsolete left-right political spectrum