Who's in the Center - The Rev. Philip DeVaul

Centrist. Moderate. That middle? 

Let’s look for a moment at that center – one where people actually sit in terms of the events of the day. 66% of Americans believe that the government should ensure health care coverage for every citizen. 64% of Americans believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases. 70% of Americans do not want immigration decreased. 60% of Americans do not approve of the way ICE is operating in our country. 60% of Americans believe that gun laws should be stricter. 63% of Americans believe that taxes on corporations should be raised. 79% of Americans believe in vaccine mandates for children for preventable diseases. 

Let’s just stop there for a moment, because these are all hot-button issues, and I’m wondering how you feel about me bringing them up at all in the first place. Am I deliberately trying to be controversial? No, I have been writing the last few weeks about the tricky sticky territory of trying to hold the middle ground, trying to be centrist, and I realized we haven’t even explored what the center looks like. So I took a look at the basic public opinion on some of the central issues of our current day. We are told these are controversial issues, but the numbers demonstrate that the middle looks really clear.  

There is so much talk in our country about a desire to move to the middle and this is what the middle looks like.  

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