> > 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.
I am what you could call a professional centrist (I blog and freelance about politics for a living), but I'm not so blind to my own biases that I believe this sort of nonsense that our system is somehow less colored by personal opinion than any other. All centrist means is we're between the left and the right, and in other nations the center is nowhere near where the center is here, and if you don't think there are centrist zealots out there... run a popular centrist blog for a while. They're out there too, and they'll assuredly come out of the woodwork once there is a more organized political center in our country. There is no centrist religion, or centrISM, yet... but it's pretty much a 100% likelihood that, if a centrist political establishment developed one would eventually come about. Its just human nature to try and develop systems of thought like that. Billy is right above... people like John Stewart and Steven Colbert (I'm a much bigger fan of the latter myself) can't be the actual leaders of a movement like what we need. The job of satirists is to use their satire to point out absurdities in our world, and they (especially Colbert) do that amazingly well. They can,however, goad things in the right direction... and help lay the groundwork for something to come along and try to break the back of the two party system... organizing the vital center against the left and right, and working towards making it so the center has nearly as much of an equal representation in Washington as the left and right do. -- 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
