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We really gotta stop using "centrist" instead of pro-corporate. That's just establishment sleight of hand to make pro-corporate policies look like the defaults.
centrist is just “weakly pro billionaire”. Which is still pro billionaire.
If you like - personally centrist, in my mind, just means "Doesn't stand for shit except self enrichment"
At best, a centrist indirectly supports the status quo, which in our time is Neoliberalism, at worst, they're ghouls underneath that mask.
Especially because the corporate support increases from center to right. Libertarians want to eliminate regulations on businesses, and the far right wants to accelerate inequality by lifting regulations on, and subsidizing the overhead for, the wealthiest corporations.
I agree that pro-corporate makes far more sense than centrist. “Not far-left” would also work, but it’s clunky.
So ... Neoliberal