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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2022-09-12

"[...] one thing that's always irritated me is someone lionizing 'the center.' The 'center' continually drifts rightward. That's why 'the center' is displeased that progressives are trying to pull 'the center' somewhat back leftward. Given several years of effort (ok, it might take well over 10 years or longer) we might get to where we can see where 'the center' should actually be." -- DKos user bfbayha, 2022-07-24

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sabotabby: raccoon anarchy symbol (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] sabotabby at 10:48am on 2022-09-12
Yeeeep.
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posted by [personal profile] redbird at 01:41pm on 2022-09-12
A nice line I learned from Molly Ivins, who noted that she was quoting Jim Hightower: "There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos."
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posted by [personal profile] mneme at 11:42pm on 2022-09-13
I don't know that that's true, so much as that the "center" is just a question of the excluded middle. It's not a description of the "compromise" position unless the sides are actually equal and equivalent. But the true commpromise (which is to say majority or supermajority) position is the one that can get the votes.

Biden is an example of an actual moderate, in that he was elected by a majority of the party that thought he was the right candidate, and then the majority of the countery who thought he was better than the other guy. This doesn't mean he was supported by the "center" -- it means he was the one that could get the votes, no matter where they came from.
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posted by [personal profile] extraarcha at 03:31pm on 2022-09-14
In actuality, "the center" is a very long standing meme used by the media to prejudice the views being pushed of politics. It specifically means where they want the reader/viewer to think is the 'reasonable' center position in the current political situation. It doesn't exclude the middle. It tries to frame where they want you to think "the middle" is.

Visualize the Bell Curve (a graph depicting the ?normal? distribution). They're trying to claim that it represents the 80% of the citizenry.

And that's the thing: it's a total guess and rather easily shows the selector's political biases.
The thing said about it continually drifting right-ward is a fact that is well documented in more that just politics.

Polls consistently show that the largest bloc of citizens agree with what the so-called "Progressives" are advocating for. The MSM and wealthy want you to believe that they're extreme left-wing nut jobs.
Nope.
Read the cited article and consider things.
The true Moral Center is where we want to be.
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