OK, I need to have a thread about centrism coz I am being accused of it again in terms of doing 'both sides' stuff. I've said before why I don't think centrism (in the sense of taking a middle position on everything rather than finding your views somewhere near the middle) works.
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I've seen the utility of "Radical Moderate" or plain old "Skeptic" ...
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But when I hear “radical moderate” I just think of Rick and Morty fans
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I take it from Pierre Trudeau's musing on the "radical middle." Definitely an under-determined buzz-phrase. My ultra-Trumpist has a weird buzz-phrase landscape surrounding "Elites." Boo hiss.
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Wikipedia has an article on radical centrism (Not that I trust it to be a mostly unbiased source anymore) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_centrism …
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I'll have to use it as a variant in my tiresome "'The Left' | 'The Right' | 'A Flabby Generality' ate my homework." I have come to loathe a certain petitio ... if you know what I mean.
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Would it be fair to call you and your
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They had a heart attack and hit send before finishing.
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Recovered from the 'attack' of fumblethumbs. "to call you and yours 'radical moderates'?"
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Reality is when societies run along centrist lines they function reasonably well, when they veer off to extremes there tends to be problems.
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