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To: Lane3 who wrote (29326)	9/28/2006 8:07:20 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541403

The dilemma of centrists and their lack of a party and governing ideology were addressed by several posters. What discussion was compromised? I was just imagining the reaction from some if a hot button word was used to refer to the Bush domestic security program, like its roots in police states or the Nazis. They are definitely second cousins of one sort or another, but some fur would fly over the terminology, no?

To: Lane3 who wrote (29326)	9/28/2006 8:51:23 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541403

I thought the discussion about marxism was more interesting than the discussion about centrists- who really don't exist. People are either political or apolitical- and being apolitical is not centrism. And of those people who are political, some are moderate and some are zealots- and moderation doesn't make you a centrist either. I'm sorry you think an interesting discussion "sucks all the air out of the room". I don't see any discussions here as "useful" (except "useful" as in "entertaining") but the discussion on marxism at least had the merit of being entertaining to me. Just goes to show we all see things very very differently.

To: Lane3 who wrote (29326)	9/28/2006 9:47:32 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541403

I was reflecting on what appeared to me a case of a hot button word sucking all the air out of the room and compromising potentially useful discussion, which is an unfortunate condition nowadays. I actually didn't see it that way. I thought the original piece was quite interesting and only, as you may recall, objected to the notion that the American left was "rooted" in Marxism, as a minor, passing point. Strikes me there was a good bit of discussion about what constitutes the center, as there has been throughout the life of this thread. Well, at least as far as I know. I don't usually participate because I'm not terribly interested in the question. But it has certainly been discussed. A lot.