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Don't have a clue who this Bevan chap is. You see I've just picked an arbitrary middle ground, rather than seeking to understand various political views and deciding for myself where I stand. Thanks for your input though. Must rush off. I've got to get my Superdry jacket on and drive my Nissan Quashquai to a suburban BBQ.
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Pragmatism is not something that belongs to "centrists". Aneurin Bevan had to be pragmatic to get the NHS from a dream to a reality, but he was nobody's centrist.
A lot of people who call themselves centrists are just lazily indulging the golden mean fallacy. The kind of asshole who used to say "You're very confident in your opinion" when they had no response to an argument, but has now graduated to "I take the middle ground" and feels good about it, despite knowing fuck all about the actual ground.