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meloshouldgo
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8/28/2018 11:47 PM
CENTRISTS
First off I want to present the idea of Argument moderation and why the core tenet of Centrism is flawed: Just because there are two extreme or opposite positions, it does not always follow that the compromise position is correct. To define the impact of centrist policies we would have to agree on who are centrists and who are not - I think of Lyndon Johnson, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Bush, Clinton and Obama as all being centrists to different degrees. Centrism in America is right of center (meaning it falls to political right of midpoint between the two extremes) Of the above the Republicans were definitely more right wing and the democrats were more closer to the middle, but as a result the policy struglle between the two groups ended going right of center. Do centrists have an unified agenda, it's hard to say. Did their policies deliver a crushing blow to the middle class and destroy it's bargaining power from 70s on to modern times. Abso-fukking-lutely. To me the right wing and the centrists have both really played the same game just in two different ways appealing to different sets of emotions. Neither side wanted teh middle class to flourish, but one side was willing to chop them off at the knees, the other wanted a softer approach with more feel good stories woven in to create a sense of false contentment. When in the 50s -60s the middle class had real affluence, they were not enslaved to their jobs and had teh power to negotiate, they also had real upward mobility. The ruling class of oligarchs found this to be disquieting and felt threatened that their power was slipping away. How this group funded, and controlled both sides of the political debate (Republicans and Centrist Democrats) over time to impose their will on the middle class is the true story of the requiem of the American Dream. I will try to provide a timeline of events and key policy changes (some that I have already mentoned above) but I can't find every centrist that voted on those - I do't have th etime or resources to put that type of research together. I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only try to make them think - Socrates
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