Yeah, I think Ernie nailed it. With centrism, all issues are always on the table for debate and for improvement. Centrism doesn't preclude tradition and specific interest in certain ideas, but the combination of rational explanation and corresponding facts will overrule any belief or principle.
On Nov 30, 11:56 am, "Dr. Ernie Prabhakar" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Billy, > > On Nov 29, 2011, at 22:25, [email protected] wrote: > > > Well, I donno about a religion of Centrism. Not my idea of what RC should be > > all about. Speaking personally, I regard RC as akin to social science, but > > for > > a good cause, trying to make sense in a useful way of the political mess we > > find ourselves in, not to further the interests of the Left. > > To be fair, we each have our own "religious" hot button issues(e.g., Islam > and homosexuality for Billy). But the religion of centrism is to be > self-critical and empirically grounded, so hopefully we'll avoid the usual > dogmatism of the Left and Right (even if it means eventually we'll develops > at more subtle dogmatism...). -- 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
