Ha yep the other day someone said I was a centrist as an insult, I think they actually meant "decides based on the specific issue and the currently available evidence around it" and that was too long to write ;)
The with us or against us team-sport/tribal stuff will be the end of humanity I am sure!
A centrist, you say? Well, aren't you a filthy little fence-sitter! I jest, of course, but I'm a little more optimistic - "us vs them" tribalism has been around forever. If that sort of thinking were to end humanity, I think it would have happened by now. Every time something happens that seems like the end of the world, it too passes.
I like your attitude :)
This year I was supposed to keep positive and that lasted about ten minutes. It's probably social media/trad media amplification rather than anything real I see. Discord gets clicks a lot more than agreement!