Your political views become centrist for your country.

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I could actually imagine a plausible scenario where my views would become "centrist". Here's a rough sketch of the history of the state where my views are "centrist":

The People's Republic of the DFB, a country spanning North America from the southern extremities of  Chihuahua Desert to the prairies of the Lakota Nation, from California to Louisiana is known throughout the world as a den of radical dissent. The People's Republic was originally carved out of the territorial holdings of the Spanish crown after decades of struggle in the late 18th Century. Inspired by the American Revolution, Crypto-Jewish farmers and alienated mestizos on La Frontera allied themselves with indigenous peoples to forge a new nation based on an odd form of federalism. Over the coming decades, The Republic of the DFB was beset by a number of challenges, first and foremost the threat of American expansionism but the Republic managed to maintain its independence by shrewdly allying itself with Britain, which had a vested interest in combating American expansionism after the loss of Canada.

After forging a relationship with Britain, the DFB Republic managed to attract capital investment in attractive mine-holdings and railroads to transport gold, silver and copper to the coast. It also set out to attract migrants who were offered free plots of land so long as they produced a certain amount of yields, some of which had to be exported. During the period historians now describe as The Age of Capital (1848 - 1890), the DFB Republic grew in its might, attracting droves of Jewish, Spanish and Italian immigrants to the growing cities of San Antonio and San Francisco. It also attracted droves of escaped slaves from the South before the American Civil War in 1875. Protected by Britain, the DFB Republic was shielded from the rapacious attitudes of the United States.

Still, the DFB Republic was beset by yawning inequality and increased labor unrest, which led to a rupture in the traditional party politics between the Liberal Party, representing wealthy mine-owners, hacendados + their poor peons and factory owners and the Radical Party, representing escaped slaves, small land-owners and the indigenous. The Socialist Party swooped in and began agitating for an increased class of proletarians and slowly cannibalized the Liberal Party's peon constituencies. As the Great War beckoned, the DFB Republic was at a fracturing point between the forces of the old order and the sprawling class of proletarians, largely defined by various immigrant heritages.

I could go into more detail if requested but the ultimate outcome is a seizure of power by Liberal strongmen, which is met by a popular uprising in the early 1900s. After this, there are a number of reforms that redistribute land from hacendados to the agricultural laborers, that nationalize the mining industry, the oil industry and that allow for very advanced worker protections. From this point forward, the party system is characterized between the Radical Party, which finds a niche among increasingly forward-thinking, secular entrepreneurs, academics, small-farmers, and the Socialist Party, which contains to dominate among proletarians.

The People's Republic of the DFB is characterized by its unusually accepting attitude towards refugees, immigrants and the indigenous, who have self-governance rights. It's known as a haven of "cosmopolitan" values, embraced nearly uniformly. It's also unusually secular for the Americas. On economic issues, the People's Republic has a high-level of state intervention but the Radical Party remains a forceful advocate for market reforms with a humane face.

The Radical Party argues for shifting state-intervention towards market-reforms that would loosen strict labor regulations and full employment mandates in favor of a universal income of some sort. The Radical Party supports decreased tax rates and introducing a market-component to the ownership of the oil/mining industries.

The Socialist Party in 2015 is fighting a rear-guard action against the Radical Party and simply wants to maintain the status quo against "neo-liberal" reforms. The party is quite similar to "21st Century socialism" of Evo Morales sans the populist rhetoric. It never experienced a "Third Way" turn, which makes it out of place among Socialist International parties in any other developed nation but has ceased to forcefully advocate against "rupturing with capitalism", instead favoring maintaining strictly proscribed markets, which served the People's Republic of the DFB quite nicely, largely due to huge oil windfalls and an impressive tech sector.

Demographics:
-5% Asian
-5% MENA
-10% indigena
-10% Black (largely descendants of runaway slaves)
-20% European (immigrant stock)
-35% Mestizo
-10% Jewish

I'm not sure why I typed this up but I find the idea of a state where my views are "in the center" to be quite unthinkable. I'm far too radical on many "post-materialist" issues for this country to exist so I had to invent a country that's unusually accepting of "cosmopolitan" values.