What is centristpundits.com all about?
Politics. More specifically, centrist and moderate politics.
The center of American politics may be hard to pin down at any given moment, but the extremes are not. The ultra-right and ultra-left, to a large degree, dominate political discussion. There are many reasons for this, but the main one is that it is easy to sound passionate about an extreme view. Just take an idea and go off and running with it, and who cares about the consequences? It is easy to break an idea that has no shades of gray in to a sound bite – and sound bites are easy to repeat over and over again.
But most American’s don’t fall to one extreme or the other. They fall in to a vast middle ground, some leaning right, some leaning left, some dead center. Some even fall outside of the traditional left-right view of politics, perhaps falling in to different places depending on the issue.
Political discourse doesn’t seem to favor those who can’t self-identify to one extreme or the other. This site wants to change that. Sure, at the most basic, centristpundits.com is about two guys – one center-left and one center-right – who have political thoughts and want to get them off their chest, and who hope that in doing so you’ll be both entertained and that you’ll think about what they said, whether or not you agree.
Beyond that, however, there is a hope that all our readers can become political activists themselves. America is founded on the idea of participatory politics, of participatory Democracy. You absolutely have the right to sit there and do nothing about politics, and just let policy happen around you. But it is such a waste. If when you read our posts you are inspired to write a response, that’s participating. If you are inspired to write your political representatives, or your newspaper, or start an organization dedicated to following through on your vision of the proper path for America, that’s participating.
Politics is amazing because it is an experiment in thought. Sometimes, it can be poisoned – for example, if policy debate becomes about two extremes shouting at each other rather than two people who genuinely disagree trying to find a solution they both can live with. It is an experiment in thought, and so everyone can participate.
Centristpundits.com may seem, especially at first, like its telling you how two guys who walk towards the middle of the political spectrum feel about politics. But more importantly, it wants you to know how YOU feel about politics… and then find a way to share it.
The middles a good place to be, fiscally I’d same I’m conservative as heck, in terms of personal business way on the liberal side. Too bad the two seem to be on different sides all the time.
With the middle feeling disconnected and the control being held by Oligarchs who do nothing but shred the other side we’re in trouble.
The Republicans attacked Clinton at any excuse and the Democrats demonized Bush. Now it’s the Republican’s turn to bitch again.
But I’d rather have them bitching and getting nothing done that insane expenditures that I doubt will really do anything positive to the economy. The government can do little to help it in the short term and in the long term it usually hurts. After all the government concept to help more people get mortgages allowed greedy vermin to end up causing a massive collapse.
I’ll keep voting but dang it’s been awhile since I didn’t have a cloths pin on my nose in the voting booth.