1) For example, what if someone cannot work due to injury or debilitating disease? I'm not doctrinaire about anything, so I think mechanisms can and should be put in place to distinguish between those who legitimately cannot work due to a medical or physical condition, and those who simply prefer to avoid work. Culling those out who simply prefer to avoid work would raise public acceptance of the safety net.
2) How do we get (induce, cajole, threaten, whatever) the media into educating the public rather than simply feeding the public a load of bull day in and day out? Gotta create a news station of that sort that can pull away viewers. Ratings are king. 3) How do we get (incentivize, cajole, etc) the multitudes to cease and desist believing in obsolete theories of economics? Develop a competitive, cohesive economic alternative. The ingredients are there for a consistent centrist position, but we need to identify the central thoughts, back them up with some empirical data, and create general agreement among centrists to defend the position. I think one of the center's weaknesses is that it holds a (sometimes fair) reputation for wishy-washiness. We need to address all problems in some meaningful way while pointing out that we're not "non- partisan", we're "supra-partisan". Our first goal is to get things right, independent of all that ideological/rhetorical fluff, and we don't avoid issues just because they're sticky. I say "all problems" because people aren't going to take our economic message seriously if we keep conveniently pushing off other divisive issues as irrelevent. Everything needs to be on the table, and everything needs to be empirically defensible. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
