Only true among moderate and centrist PUNDITS. Not so among ordinary moderate Americans.
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Where do you think the largest differences exist between centrist pundits and centrist "average Americans"? I think you're generally right, in that the centrist pundits are cool with the status quo, whereas I think the centrist "average American" knows something ain't right.
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They're obstinate status quo worshipers. These people consistently mistake the apathy of centrism and moderatism as a virtue without seeing that the same apathy makes them useless towards contributing to any goal or having a goal in the first place. It's a ton of useless people!
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That there's a ton of useless people that want to abdicate their civic role doesn't mean there's a useful silent moderate majority lurking about, waiting to be convinced towards action. It means there's a critical mass of self reinforcing apathy that can only reinforce status quo
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You can play risky games with the planet or people that you consider the other. But if you threaten the profitability of current holders of capital, you're a dangerous and a threat to humanity.
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preserving the status quo is more acceptable when the status quo isn't killing off large segments of life of earth
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They're like cockroaches in the face of sustained decades of being grotesquely, catastrophically wrong. "Moderation" in this context is all about elevating a certain neutered affect over empiricism, logic, and real human experience.
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It's true: the moderate/centrist labels clarify nothing; sometimes so-called moderates are badly wrong, even extreme. Equally true: generic critiques of moderates clarify nothing: on some issues, the compromise position is better than alternatives on offer from the poles.
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Financial deregulation and the Iraq war were the result of compromise. The new deal, abolition, and the programs of the 60s were not. Try harder.
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We have found the mythical moderate rebel
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