> > I see value in what you are saying but I think you may be missing the > emerging power of the liberty movement, especially among youth. I notice a > large age gap on this issue. Older folks like us may be stuck in some old > ways of thinking. As I have exposed myself to the liberty community it has > become apparent that this is a vibrant and growing coalition.
Do you mean libertarian? I'm a polling junkie and I can assure you, there is not widespread support for much of that platform. There is on a handful of issues, but not on the libertarian perspective in general. This coming from a former card carrying libertarian. The libertarian perspective is to centrists like liberals are to communists, or conservatives are to theocrats. Yes, centrists are generally more socially liberal and fiscally conservative, but libertarians take those stances orders of magnitude farther down the spectrum than centrists do. While I think the libertarian inspired World's Smallest Political Quiz is ruefully innaccurate in that it's far too simplistic, the map it plots people on makes a lot of sense... where centrists and libertarians are both between the left and right, but libertarians are plotted differently. -- 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
