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A lot of people would argue that they're both middle ground parties that pretend to have big differences for the show of it.

> A lot of people would argue that they're both middle ground parties that pretend to have big differences for the show of it.

Even though a lot of people argue that, if it weren't true things would be far worse. Despite the differences, there needs to be something resembling a governing consensus.

Absolutely amazing you can look at the state of American politics and think "what we need here is more centrism".

We do have centrist parties in general elections. The non-centrist tendencies arise in the primaries. Then the non-centrist primary voters get miffed after the general election on account of the centrist lurch to collect independent votes.

Most Democrats are right of center on the political spectrum. (IMO)