Sorry for the pedantry, but ... this isn't a lie per se, rather usage of deceptively-meaningless terminology. Specifically, "centrism" of the American Left-Righ

Sorry for the pedantry, but ... this isn't a lie per se, rather usage of deceptively-meaningless terminology. Specifically, "centrism" of the American Left-Right dichotomy, is poorly defined. There are multiple ways to arrive at a balanced compromise between: * the Left's platform (use government to ensure everyone is fed, entertained, coddled and unoffended); and * the Right's platform (use government to exert Christian theocracy, and to earn bribes by exerting the largest pocketbooks' wills, even if that means building an empire). Two notable extremes of such compromise are: * use government to do everything under the sun, from wealth redistribution to world conquest (cf Horseshoe Theory); and * don't use government for anything for which it isn't absolutely necessary (cf libertarianism aka classical liberalism). IMHO classical liberalism is better than nationalist-socialism, and it seems you agree; but both positions could be described as "centrism" since they lie between the Left and the Right.