Joe Manchin's ugly new demands expose the absurdity of arbitrary centrism

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6. Maybe, but it's representative government in action. Not gone wrong.

It's unfortunate that we have tie in the senate that makes one vote so powerful. But sometimes that happens. Another time we're 5 senators down and just sit and watch while the Republicans run the board. The people speak.

As for Manchin, he's extremely well regarded by a majority of U.S. citizens residing in red WV. A popular moderate-conservative-leaning-blue governor, now senator whom they reelect by strong margins. THEY LIKE HIM!

Refusal to accept that the people of WV have the right to be represented as they choose would be rejection of representative government.

Negotiation of legislation that a majority of representatives can agree on is how representative democracy works. Always has been.

May not always be.

Because Trump and his trumpists hate representative government and intend to put an end to it. They believe people who disagree with them don't deserve to have a say and need to be stopped. By definition they'd despise "arbitrary centrism," whatever that might be, because ONLY their fascistic white nationalism is valid.