I've got friends that call themselves moderates that are to the left of Obama and insist that he is a moderate and a centrist. Sure, those are subjective labels, but at some point, shouldn't we consider what the 2 sides are and where the middle really exists before stating that people who are for socialized medicine and redistribution of wealth via big government force are somehow in the middle of the ideological spectrum?
Problem is, I think the far left is desperately trying to convince us (and perhaps even themselves) that they are the norm, not the extremists. But they are very much on the extreme. The current make-up of the country is 40% conservative, 35% on the fence, 21% liberal, and 4% out to lunch. So if you look at where the middle is, it is center right, exactly where Obama is not, and exactly where my "moderate" friends are not. In fact, they are so far from being center right that it's asinine for them to assert that they are centrists or moderates.
A part of this campaign for the uber-left to claim that they are moderates is a series of ads which they are now running, (the concept of which they entirely stole from the Mormons, by the way) which attempts to make Communists look like relatable people. Here's a question for the commies in the new "... and I'm a Communist" tv commercials, which I won't attach here because I don't want to give them Youtube hits: You've decided to become Commies because in our current cultural climate that makes you a non-conformist, but non-conformity is exactly what will get you killed under Communism, so isn't your own non-conformism self defeating when you choose to use it to conform to a totalitarian political system whose only proclaimed virtue is it's ability to make everyone the same?
The commercial should be more open and honest and say, "Hi, I'm Jane, and I like revolution, anarchist riots, dressing up effigy's of Republicans in Hitler costumes at anti-American rallies, and I believe that all of the rich people should be killed so that we can share their wealth and create world peace through bloodshed... and I'm a Communist." That would at least be honest. People like that might actually believe that Obama is a moderate, but anyone trusting them to make that distinction shouldn't have any credibility in social discourse.
Until the pendulum swings and Liberalism takes the largest slice of the ideological pie in this country, I am more of a centrists than anyone who praises the health care bill with its ability to grow over time, and I am, by no means, a centrist.
Case in point: I tried to find articles from the Huffington Post, NBC.com, the AP, Yahoo, etc. today. What I found was an article on FoxNews.com, and one from the Huffington Post. The rest don't seem to know about the violent rioting in London yet. Nothing to see here, I guess.
ReplyDeleteTh Huffington Post's article emphasized that the violence was not part of the original plan, and that the 8 people who had to be sent to the hospital only had minor injuries. They entirely omitted the fact that the protesters attempted to burn the building down by lighting the 4th floor on fire and that Marxist Union inciters are at fault. I guess those are just minor details not worth sharing, right? The article made it sound like the protesters are justified in their rage, because, as you know, they are just like us.
The results of the election show that less and less Americans are buying their BS.
ReplyDeleteMost of America is not on board with the far left's radical progressive agenda when it is accurately exposed. To use that as a reference point for where they fit on the spectrum, I think, is pretty faulty. Very few people are going to admit they're on the far left when true committed self proclaimed communists are so far out of mainstream.
ReplyDeleteIts wishful thinking. As a hard core centrist myself (based on the fact that I just so happen to agree with where the average American public stands on most issues in polls... lean left on social, lean right on fiscal) I can assure you that Obama is nowhere near a centrist.
ReplyDeleteJust like right wingers think that Obama is a socialist, which shows how little they understand what socialism actually means, those on the extreme left wing want to spin Obama as centrist because they wish to redefine what it means to be liberal in this country, and in so doing make themselves feel less like the extreme outsiders that they are.
Solomon Kleinsmith
Rise of the Center
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