Bare Bones Radical Centrism
What does the critique of the Left get right ?
" " " " " " " " wrong ?
What does the critique of the Right get right ?
" " " " " " " " wrong ?
Both sets of questions need to always be asked.
Plus:
Adding it all up, what really seems to be the truth ?
What is the best solution to the problem ?
This may be some combination of ideas from Left and Right
-or-
it may be a new, original solution that you invent yourself.
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Essentials:
If close to 100% of your criticisms are derived from a Right-wing
perspective
then you are not a Radical Centrist.
If close to 100% of your criticisms are derived from a Left-wing
perspective
then you are not a Radical Centrist.
Radical Centrism starts from the position that there is something
fundamentally
wrong with both Left and Right. Exact percentages vary from year to year
but -structurally- it is just about impossible for either L or R to be
more than about 2/3rds wrong on any given set of issues. And the split
is more characteristically closer to 55 - 45.
That is, no party or political viewpoint could exist as a movement
unless is was objectively right at least 1/3rd of the time, and more like
a minimum of 40% or 45%.
This refers to mainstream parties or causes. Extremist political groups
may well be wrong at very high rates and right at very low rates.
Because, structurally, the major parties are each right at least about 40%
of the time, a Radical Centrist should always seek to identify that 40%
even if, until "signing up" as a Radical Centrist, he had been a
Rock-ribbed
Republican or a Yellow Dog Democrat.
Solutions to problems should usually be "radical," that is, uncompromising
and bold and, most of all, be based on some standard of objective good
and objective usefulness. A solution is also radical when it does
not pander to partisan considerations of any kind, in which case
it is radically independent.
Billy
December 27, 2013
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