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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (372)6/5/2005 1:06:54 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (1) of 541330
 
"That is a me too thing, just in the middle"

I'm trying without success to get my head around this. I guess my problem is that I don't know what centrism stands for. Do you perceive it has a platform? The partisans have a lot of issues and activities to glad-hand and/or commiserate about. About the only thing I can think of that moderates can me-too about is the notion of "a pox on both." To which I heartily concur. <g>

That was the point. Partisans from both end attacked the Senate 14. But they promptly issued statements reaffirming their self importance. One Senator said that nothing could happen in the Senate without their approval. They did not even form a cohesive platform. They formed an alliance on one issue of deep contention.

I am not comparing the centrist here to the Senate 14. I am merely using it as an example of what can happen. Politics has ceased to be a place where egalitarians go to help their fellow man. It is a club where people who want to control things go to get more power.

Do you realize how out of touch we all are? Bob Felt's daughter answered the door and let some middle aged journalist in to see her dad. She did not know who BOb Woodward was. I would have recognised the name if not the face. Most of the posters on political threads would have also. Middle America does not care that much.
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