I never said anything like that. Are you sure you're not confusing this thread with some other discussion you're having?

I've yet to meet a person that wouldn't describe socialism as "far left", and one of the main principles of socialism is ownership of the means of production by the working class, which is exactly what worker co-ops are. As such, those would be "leftist".

I've already described what centrist system is in my view and argued against your arguments about it being rooted in being moderate as opposed to shift in society the system intends to implement. I'll reiterate my argument against classification of democratic socialism as a centrist political system - it intends to implement fundamental changes (which already makes it non-centrist if you wish to use subjective definition of centrism, where it protects the status quo) that will lead to fall of capitalism and rise of socialism (which is a far left political system, and that would make democratic socialism non-centrist by 'objective' definition, in which centrism is a mid point between furthest left and right).

You claimed that being moderate is the definition of centrism and then used right wingers as example of using it as political strategy. I see that as a clear contradiction. By your own admission right wing use the veil of moderate politics to smuggle through their evil policies. So are they the center if they mask their intent, or are they right wing? If they are right wing, despite using moderate politics to disguise their plans and garner popularity for their policies, then democratic socialism would be left wing for exactly the same reason.

That's my reiterated argument against moderate politics = center. You've never described center as anything other than moderate politics, not shaking the boat etc. - which I wouldn't say inherently applies to democratic socialism either, but that's a whole different discussion. I've disagreed with this definition of centrism, as it's unrelated to political spectrum - you can be moderate anarcho communist just as well as nazi that doesn't want to rock the boat, so they remain popular with the public.

Regarding popularity, because your argument about Republicans not being popular still seems weird to me, it's not related to 'doing good'. Nazis were popular, won the democratic elections, you know? Some people just like facism, but others are drawn in by charisma and stuff like that. You accused me of conflating popularity with good, and I still have no idea where you got that from.

I'll remind you we're discussing whenever democratic socialism is a centrist political system or not, not how far left it is. And re-reading your first comment, I'm not even sure we define this term in the same way, so I'll just point out the definition on wikipedia is mostly compatible with mine. You seem to think that perhaps the Democratic Party in US is democratic socialist party, judging from your remarks about Harris policies? Because if so, that couldn't be further from the truth.

I'll be honest, I'm very confused with your replies. I'm trying to address what I 'think' you're talking about, but I feel like you came to this conversation with a baggage of context (or misunderstanding) that I'm not privy to.