There is not now nor has there ever been a “center” in politics or the economics and religions that drive political action. There has always been conscienceless greed and gratuitous power-lust, what we label today as the right. There can be no reaction to the people thus driven except extreme opposition. There have, at times, been lulls, stalemates, in the battle between Right and Left that appears to be Centrist. But any attempt to compromise, to create a center by design only results in aiding and abetting the forces of the right for they do not compromise, they cannot compromise and maintain their claims of Divine Right to profit and rule.
So, do not examine the emotional makeup of centrists or consider their place in the political spectrum, they have no legitimate role to play in this very real class struggle unless it is to blunt the power of humanity as we constantly struggle for our own security and comfort against those who see us only as expendable resources to be used and tossed aside in the pursuit of wealth.