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If you want a balanced society, first you have to fully grasp what that means. Political ideologies are not unchangeable like race or sexual orientation, you can literally just go “oh, this position isn’t serving me anymore” or “this party has changed and moved away from representing my principles” and you can do it whenever.
Being a “moderate”, especially if you’re in a place where true support of the working class has evaporated and the right has gone full fascist is such a silly thing. All it does is scream that the only thing you care about is being between two things, not that you’ve actually thought about if either of those two things have become invalid as a point of reference. In the US and Canada the overtly right-wing parties have shifted so far to the right as to not be even remotely valid and the center has, because it has no values to keep it in place, moved to fill the conservative gap.
“Balanced”. Sure thing, champ.
I mean people have changed sexual orientation but thats usually because they were living a lie and some folks swing both ways and can be a bit fluid in what is their main preference. We choose party canidates in the primary that just happened and that I voted it. All my canidates did not win but some did and many of my least perference did not. I worked on a right in canidates campaign. Come november I can vote on principle or I can try to improve the state of my country right now. Not fighting the full fascist right at this point is not something as fun and banal as silly. Its devastating.