Harris is pretty centrist.

Never underestimate Democrats ability to screw up a sure thing.

I reject this statement wholeheartedly and call you out on your hypocrisy.  You're attempting to regulate the language that I use in order to steer the debate in the direction you want it to go, all under the guise of trying to have "real discussions".  Telling me that my opinion is wrong and my words are "loaded" is the exact opposite of having a "real discussion", because you are artificially creating the parameters under which I have to operate; in order to have the conversation, I have to change my central belief to fit your rules.  Why am I not allowed to feel that they are "too radical" for my liking?  Can you also tell me what is "too hot", "too cold", "too spicy", or "too loud" for me, because those are all subjective opinions of a personal nature as well?  If you're afraid of the words I'm using and feel you have to manipulate them to alter or quiet the ideas behind them, then you aren't actually interested in having a real discussion and only in selling your narrative.  

As well, I've said this before, and I'll say it again.  I DON'T CARE ABOUT THEIR RANKING OR PLACE ON THE SPECTRUM OF HISTORICAL OR GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE.  I live in the United States of America in 2019, and I care first and foremost about the leaders in the United States of America in 2019.  I want a centrist government, a little more liberal on social issues and a little more conservative on fiscal issues, one that meets the needs of the majority of the citizens and doesn't make those of us who sit in the middle feel like weirdos because we haven't raced to the far edges with the rest of the lunatics. 

There is absolutely nothing that has come out of Elizabeth Warren's mouth yet in this election cycle that doesn't sound like full-blown radicalism.  From ultra-taxing the rich, to free college for all, to breaking up Amazon, Facebook, and Google, and her new one, reparations for slavery, these are all designed to stir the far left progressive wing of the Democratic Party into a lather, while making those of us in the middle cringe.  We don't want the entire apple cart upset, just fixed up a little bit, put back on the road, and ready to get apples to everyone.        

I would say there have been a few grand visions by Democrat contenders reaching farther than reality will ever actually allow for them to be implemented, and in some cases beyond the speaker's experience to seriously implement. They are going to try and get people in a panic about socialism but you have it already, it's all a question of where and how much the same as with needed regulations and rules (where I hope they can implement or restore). There is a base of let's get rid of things like copyrights or let's have totally free this or an absolute end to homelessness or hunger... don't worry they will find out I would say (while still waiting for the no gun restrictions and yuuge wall people to find out what they have to find out). This is mostly just the stage things are at where there are people saddling up a big idea to stand out. Later is a stage of trying to find wider appeal. It's really early. I'm certainly glad there are these people involved, much better than the total self-interest ego types or the religious fanatics, even though a number of them wouldn't be my choice for president (although any of them versus the present occupant).

Wanting a centrist in terms of the U.S. is too generic though, it's got to be a smart centrist, not one enabling the same old crooks to have a lockhold on certain areas. I'm not sure if Biden is or isn't, he can be a bigmouth in a Trump sense but if his heart is in the right place I can look at that as being for a good cause... still, sometimes he speaks a bit too freely in a way that doesn't do anything (molehill to the present man-mountain there obviously). I have some trust a respect for him. Bernie is ranked at number two and as I didn't want an Independent before (not practical) I still don't, not even as veep. I don't think he'd be much more than another Carter frankly, at odds with both parties, unable to do much but make speeches. If it happened I can think of much worse people though. Elizabeth Warren, another great at a lower level but I don't want at the top. I'm still getting to learn about the rest. Jay Inslee as well even though I remember him from Washington state news and affairs.

Off topic, but why is Elizabeth Warren not native at 3% when it used to be even 'a drop' used to qualify people as colored at one time socially and legally? What a non-issue if the Republicans focus on that advantage they say she took. I know the advantage so many of these Bush and Trump people have had from birth and how they have used it to the hilt in various ways for their own self service! I am a bit of a natural skeptic to any altruism anyway, am astonished there could be any Trump believers left, and for any of these crusaders of the left I have I hope a healthy skepticism.

Your definition of radicalism is pretty reactionary.  The marginal tax rates that are being proposed still aren't as high as they were from 1951-1963 during which time that well-known radical Dwight Eisenhower was President.  We certainly wouldn't want to go back to the fiscal policies that allowed the Interstate Highway System and the development of NASA.  

I'm not saying that Amazon, Facebook or Google need to be broken up.  But if that idea is radical then the break-up of The Bell System (under radical Nixon) and Standard Oil (under Roosevelt and extreme radical Taft) must rock your world.  

Free college is so radical that it's been adopted by such rogue nations as Germany, France, Malta (those sneaky buggers), Norway, Finland, Slovenia and other hotbeds of radicalism.  

But nobody's proposed that kind of approach to the college tuition issue. Assuming that someone will is akin to the notion that "death panels" would be doling out medical care. (Something private insurance companies do quite a bit of, actually.)

We're talking about tuition to state schools, Captain. Nobody's talking about room and board anywhere or tuition at private universities. As I've written before, this kind of program could actually usher in a new respect for and interest in "voke-tech" education, especially in community colleges, which are paying the price for the fascination with 4-year colleges for everyone.

By the standards you're applying to Warren, the GI Bill, Social Security and Medicare are all radical and therefore tabu to mainstream America.