No you don't. If they walked the walk they wouldn't be centrists, would they?
You're ascribing their centrism to ignorance, I don't really care if it's that, or avarice, or any other motivation. If you're a centrist then by definition you're in the middle, you find more or less equal fault with both the left and the right. You find virtue more or less equally in the positions of both progressives and MAGA. Think about that for a minute in the context of everything that's going on in the world.
Yes, these people are assholes.