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Zodiak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-31-09 07:40 AM
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105. This OP is a centrist ideologue's mastubatory fantasy
No mention of a policy position at all....even when pressed, just a knee-jerk need to triangulate.

Centrism is an ideology, but it is an ideology devoid of any policy ideas at all....just a need to split the difference between two positions, no matter how skewed to the right those positions are.

Notice also how Centrists never attack the fringe right, even though the fringe right has been running this country in the ground for years. No, it is all about hatred of the left, who really has no power, no voice, and no influence....so it's politically safe to rail against them. In fact, liberals in this country have such a little voice that centrist ideologues have to create a left-wing fringe surrogate out of a centrist like Obama and attack his policies as if they were "radical".

It is a morally bankrupt, cowardly position to take, and it is clear that the OP doesn't think any deeper than that.

The history of centrism in this country is simple enablement of the radical right and the squelching of anything progressive. The end result is not sensible policy, but destructive policy and a distortion of the debate in the body politic by usurping the power of the wing of the Democratic party that has ideas.
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