Ernie / Chris Good stuff, yes, but the way I look at it, their project suffers from anemia. "Why can't we all just get along?" and "let's meet in the mushy middle" is hardly inspirational. Well, I can hardly criticize their sentiments. But they don't seem to have given the problems they are trying to solve really serious thought. For example, who is their great model of what this should look like? For us there are several possibilities, each one of them capable of stirring emotions, TR, Madison, Ben Franklin, Eisenhower, etc. But I cannot think of who Lieberman and Huntsman regard as a hero. And what about those vexing problems that seem to defy solution? Take immigration, how does a middle-of-the-road "solution" actually solve anything? Immigration, by its nature -given political realities, not to mention the practicalities involved- requires some sort of new (bold, radical) solution that cuts through the R vs L impasse. What Lieberman and Huntsman seem to offer is triangulation to a center that no-one really wants, neither on the Right nor on the Left. We need something different. This is, in Michael Lind or Ted Halstead's lexicon, some kind of "thinking outside the box" approach. Moderates don't seem to have the necessary imagination to go there, instead their habitual advice is "compromise." We aren't anti-compromise on principle, but generally it is a last resort, not the first thing we reflexively turn to. I am very heartened that two "name" political figures are looking to the center to find solutions to political problems. That's why I sent the article. But I think our little group offers far better ideas. Billy --------------------------------------------- 12/21/2016 9:33:11 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Yeah, great stuff. They've been around a while and didn't seem to have much impact. But this might be their moment. Worth thinking if we should find a way to work with them...
Sent from my iPhone On Dec 21, 2016, at 09:17, Chris Hahn <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) > wrote: Great find Billy. Here is the link to their website: https://www.nolabels.org/ Chris -- -- 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.
