@leighelse

Indeed - as I've just written in response to another reply, the political centre is always an expression of the status-quo - it's ideology is simply "things are not too bad, radical change is risky, best to just tinker a bit" - an appealing ideology as long as things actually aren't that bad for most voters, but which loses its appeal in times like this, when large groups of voters are economically insecure, and young people foresee their lives ruined by climate-ecological breakdown.

An objective analysis would therefore lead centrists to move with voters further right or left. The centre-right has clearly done so - in the US being almost completely submerged under the extreme right - but the centre-left has been much slower to move further left.

@UweHalfHand

True - the political centre is always an expression of the status-quo, and varies everywhere, and over history - and it's this that defines what is considered left or right.

In Afghanistan the idea of girls going to secondary school is on the left - to university the 'hard left'. Or in the UK, a century or so ago, the idea of women and working-class men voting (or going to university) was on the left.

However, I suspect the logic and ideologies of the relations between right-centre-and-left can be applied across such different contexts.