Centrism is only as dead as co-parenting.
Look into NPD (Narcissistic Parenting Disorder) and I believe you’ll find significant parallels. Look into AB-PA (Attachment Based Parental Alienation) and I believe you’ll find very similar behaviors (and consequences) demonstrated by party power struggles.
This is not a foolish, jaded reference. Society is/are the children caught between two parents who care more about vengeance against the other than they do about the well-being of the children.
Proper co-parenting requires fluid, constant cooperation centered on the actual best interests of the children… not a fight for what one parent wants (especially when what one parent wants is to leverage the children against the other parent in an abusive act of vengeance.)
Yes, I am an alienated parent… which is why I can see this so clearly. I dare anyone to look the truth about what I’m saying square in the eye. Centrism is analogous to harmonic co-parenting… woefully rare… equally critical… and difficult.
Centrism is not dead, it requires amicable “parents.” And right now a narcissistic parent has sole custody and is using the “children” as a weapon against the other parent. Of course it feels like the other parent must pull back against this with all their might. But, because of my experience, I can tell you it’s a trap.
Any pull away from center is a pull toward the extreme.
Please consider the truth in the analogy I have offered. The problem is bigger than politics. Go deep. You’ll see.
