My philosophical leftism and my political moderation have always come into significant tensions. How can one be a centrist without being politically quiescent on the issues that matter? Or to be more blunt: “How can I call myself a centrist when I believe in X,” where X is gay marriage, affirmative action, multicultural study tracks in school, or other positions which are not popular but are of enormous importance to the socio-political underclass? In this post, I try and reconcile the two via a new theory, called “Bottom-Centric Centrism.”