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Where have all the centrists gone?
Giuliano Taverna:
With politics getting more and more polarized is there any such thing as a moderate politician anymore? How do we the true silent majority take back our country?
Schizo:
The moderate politicians are out there - they just get torn down and demonized until they finally give in and join the rest of the pigs in the mud pit. Few people want to listen to moderates. I honestly can't think of a way to fix the polarization. Any attempt to speak out usually doesn't end well.
Giuliano Taverna:
In general centrists are the most hated of all political groups, in my experience wingnuts and moonbats will sooner get along with each other than they will get along with a moderate.
At least it seems to play out that way in elections, candidates on the right like Rudy were called out by liberals for his liberal policy stances and this helped him lose the republican primary. I suppose he wasn't quite liberal enough for them, and they were afraid he could actually win.
The same thing happens to people like Joe Lieberman.
Which is probably why people like McCain run as partisans even when they clearly are not.
Alia:
The problem with "moderation" is that in the sacrifice and watering down of ideals, the individual invariably loses more support from his allies than he can hope to gain from his opposition for the throwing of mere bones.
Giuliano Taverna:
what if your ideals are a watered down version of what each side thinks about a specific issue?
I mean take the economy, some people think we should have a command economy, some people think we should have a laze fare free market economy.
I tend to think we should have private ownership of goods, and a free market, with limits placed on corporations that become too powerful, or "too big to fail."
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