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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: koan who wrote (97692)7/24/2011 2:35:28 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (2) of 149317
 
There is no enlightened middle. It is a myth. The middle, IMO, are decent folks who do not really pay that much attention to politics, or can't figure it out, which really means they pay little attention to modern social theory or the downtrodden.

That's pretty much exactly what Rush Limbaugh says about the "middle" or "independents" every day. If you have an agenda, the middle sucks because they're going to side with the opposition to keep the radical agendas from becoming law.

This country used to be a middle country. People laughed at the John Birch society and they laughed at the far left. And both sides knew they couldn't put the country into default, that that was insane. We got by with a balanced approach, nobody got everything they wanted, but everybody got some, and it worked. Country not ideology first.

"Enlightened middle"? Maybe not. But the zealots on either side of the middle can't govern. They've proved that.
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