Preach it! Great agenda. Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 21, 2011, at 11:18, Mike Gonzalez <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- 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
