There was a time in US politics when politicians had to appeal to the center at least for the general election. We have become so polarized that the middle have just given up and stopped voting, now it is all about turning out your base, which means being as divisive as possible to make sure your side comes out to vote. The 50% of the US population that still votes are mostly the right and left 25%, the middle don’t bother.
What that says for the future of this nation is not good. Read about the Gucci brothers, Sulla, and Marius sometime.
Which is why it is more important than ever that the moderates and middle of the readers get out and get their voices heard here in the USA. Our politicians are suppose to represent everyone, not just their extremist base.
And yet, they don’t, do they, GW?
Therefor the middle moderates are not voting for either one of the extremist-pandering madmen. The left and right wings of facism look about the same to anyone standing back, not wearing a team jersey and fantasizing that they are one of the players.
Being Moderate in the U.S. .
To the Far-Left you’re a hate-filled, evil corprate-loving conservative who’s obviously a racist and a LGBT-hater.
To the Far-Right you’re hate-filled, evil socialist liberal who’s obviously a whiner and never worked on honest day in your life and must hate those that do work.
And if they don’t think that, they call you fence-sitter who obviously doesn’t want to get involved and therfore beneath the contempt they reseve for the hated other side.
*sigh*
The middle road is the closest to sanity.
There was a time in US politics when politicians had to appeal to the center at least for the general election. We have become so polarized that the middle have just given up and stopped voting, now it is all about turning out your base, which means being as divisive as possible to make sure your side comes out to vote. The 50% of the US population that still votes are mostly the right and left 25%, the middle don’t bother.
What that says for the future of this nation is not good. Read about the Gucci brothers, Sulla, and Marius sometime.
Which is why it is more important than ever that the moderates and middle of the readers get out and get their voices heard here in the USA. Our politicians are suppose to represent everyone, not just their extremist base.
And yet, they don’t, do they, GW?
Therefor the middle moderates are not voting for either one of the extremist-pandering madmen. The left and right wings of facism look about the same to anyone standing back, not wearing a team jersey and fantasizing that they are one of the players.
Being Moderate in the U.S. .
To the Far-Left you’re a hate-filled, evil corprate-loving conservative who’s obviously a racist and a LGBT-hater.
To the Far-Right you’re hate-filled, evil socialist liberal who’s obviously a whiner and never worked on honest day in your life and must hate those that do work.
And if they don’t think that, they call you fence-sitter who obviously doesn’t want to get involved and therfore beneath the contempt they reseve for the hated other side.
*sigh*
Three words:
Ranked Choice Voting!
Or moderates designing the districts for voting, and avoiding gerrymandering.