Posted on 10/18/2018 1:06:45 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
If your only source of information about American politics in 2018 were the GOP’s campaign ads, you would think that the Democratic Party was a radical left-wing organization, whose principal constituents were anarchists, misandrists, literal terrorists, and acolytes of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. If you supplemented those 30-second spots with Donald Trump’s stump speeches, and Fox News’ prime-time lineup, you might further conclude that Nancy Pelosi was the chair of The House Antifa Caucus.
In other words: The GOP’s message-makers are working round-the-clock to collapse the distinctions between the Democratic Party and the most radical activists at the far-left fringes of its big tent.
The actually existing Republican Party, on the other hand, is an extreme, reactionary formation that champions procedural radicalism, nativism, voter suppression, far-right militia movements, the stigmatization of the Islamic faith, sheriffs who habitually violate the law and their constituents’ civil rights, the subordination of federal law enforcement to Donald Trump’s whims - and, unlike the vast majority of Americans, a smaller and less generous social-welfare state, lower taxes for the rich, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, fewer regulatory protections for consumers and the environment, and various reforms aimed increasing Wyatt Koch’s share of economic growth.
When the (unfortunately existing) centrist commentariat elides these distinctions - and wishes a pox on both “extreme cults” - they are helping the most ideologically extreme major party in the developed world blind the American people to how much they have in common.
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In my (not so) humble opinion, more from our side have been dragged towards the middle than have from their side. Witness the ongoing insanity for proof.
We sometimes forget that compromising with bad policy is like adding sewage to your drinking water.
Bullstalin
And this is why you will never see the press refer to a person, group, or position as Left wing ‘extremist’.
Pol Pot wasn’t FAR Left and neither were Stalin or Castro.
Folks, this is what passes for thought and reason on the Left, i.e., totally out of touch with reality. If you think we on the Conservative side can ever reason with people like this, think again. You cannot reason with those who have no rational thought.
“America Already Has a Centrist Party. It’s Called the Democrats”
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I didn’t know that at FR Thursday is “Tell A Joke” Day”!
Eric ol’ boy, the democrat party is doing the damage to itself and it’s fun to watch.
Not tired of winning.
5.56mm
Yet another reason to kick NYC out of the union.
I always get a good laugh at those who lament we don’t have a party that is more in the center. People seem to think there are things you can pick and choose from both parties to create this fictional middle.
How do you split the difference on abortion?
How do you split the difference on being able to defend yourself with a firearm?
What is the middle ground on making me pay for some college kid to have a free education, or other socialist schemes?
Do we only open our border for half of the illegals?
There is a reason the middle has gone the way of the Dodo. If there is a to be a fight for the soul of this country, let’s have at it. I’m ready.
OMG! This takes the Eliot Spitzer Prize for journalism so base it’s simple a form of political prostitution (an award I just created for everyone’s amusement.) It’s a grander and more prestigious than a mere Pulitzer Prize.
And you would be right!
Centrist S compared to the North Korea Worker’s Party
This guy is first chair in the skin flute orchestra.
Idiot is too stupid to realize it’s the democrat wing of the CPUSA
Yep - Democrats are in the center alright.
The center of the sewer.
They put themselves there, they are happy there and they keep themselves there.
In Eric’s little bubble, this is all true.
And that’s a problem. 98% of the legacy media lives in the same bubble.
I wouldn’t even call the repubikan party a centrist party. They’re democrats of old, corruptocrats, globalists...special interest dead-enders
The demoncrat party are #commies, #marxists, #maoists, #muslims, #pinkos....Anti-American traitors-every last one of them.
The whole 3rd paragraph that the metrosexual wrote was complete hogwash.
Listen to Bernie Sanders, and the Ocasio Cortez, the Dems are not centrists, they are the psychotic left. Nice try to say they are the middle.
Barack sh!t!
Methinks thou doth project too much.
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