Whenever I am forced to talk politics with people and they bring up 'oh I'm in the middle', I just ask them 'in the middle of what' and force them to try to explain either the political compass or line graph they are visualizing and picking apart the metaphor through Socratic dialogue. It irritates the absolute shit out of people but it usually gets them to either stop talking to me about it, or stop thinking about politics in those terms because it is easily demonstrated to be nonsense.