It's not that everybody is at the exact center, but most of the people I've encountered will have a side but be pretty far away from the loud extreme narrative you see online and in the news.
> “Our studies find that people with politically moderate friends and followers are more sensitive to social feedback that reinforces their outrage expressions,” Crockett said. “This suggests a mechanism for how moderate groups can become politically radicalized over time — the rewards of social media create positive feedback loops that exacerbate outrage.”
The problems in this country and perhaps the world at large is a lot of people seem to want the extremists to get along and get into arguments with the fringes and take away that these situations represent most of reality. The truth of it is, hopefully, that there are actually an enormous number of people who are relatively quiet who just need to learn how to identify other moderate people of differing views and how to, when to, and really TO have conversations about their differences and understand and empathize with why somebody else has a different position.