The reason Centrism is dead, is because we have a voting system that is broken and gives no minority voice in politics. Our current First Past The Post voting system creates this situation where you have a two-party system which does not give minority representation, like Ranked Choice Voting systems would. Both the center left and center right politicians abandoned their base, middle America, because the funding comes from issues that divide us, not on issues which unite us, again because FPTP creates dualism and false systems with only two choices in the end. This is ideal for people that want to focus on issues that divide us and keeps inclusive issues that real majorities agree upon (Term Limits for instance), never make it to the “debate” because they are not divisive.

Moderate Liberals and Moderate Conservatives are not the problem, because they are also not the ones screaming about these issues that divide us. However, because they are not screaming like angry babies, they also get no attention or representation in our current political process. There is a majority that has been silent for too long that wants less partisanship and more cooperation. Both Liberal and Conservative views have value and deserve consideration. People need to stop looking at every issue through the lens of partisan politics, but we have been trained to do this by the outside edges of BOTH parties. We cannot break outside this with our current voting system, we need to move to something like Ranked Choice Voting. For more information how that works, check out this: http://www.fairvote.org/