It occurs to me the next big political realignment will probably come from a new moral center.
Right now, the Democrats and Republicans are still living in the 1960s and 1950s, moralistically speaking. That doesn’t drive all their policies, but it drives their emotional core. I think the issue of sex trafficking and women’s rights in the developing world has the potential to spark a new kind of foreign policy that cuts across the Right’s parochial isolationism and the Left’s amoral multiculturalism. If an activist politician (are there any remaining?) could articulate a coherent moral position on those issues, THEN bring it to bear on a relevant social issue in this country, they could peel away true believers from both sides of the aisle, and defeat both parties by hollowing them out. I still don’t think it will start happening until 2020. And I have no idea what domestic issue would be amenable to such a finesse (unless it is economic empowerment in a post-job economy, though that’s quite a stretch). But there seems enough latent energy there that somebody ought to be able to tap into it. And knowing that tells us what to watch for. With all due respect, Billy, I just don’t see the scandals of the past having sufficient potential energy to blow things wide open. I’d rather be on the lookout for the scandals of the future… E -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
