What does it mean that there is no “middle” in American politics?
I’m seriously asking.
I mean I know that the fact that there is “no middle” (that there are no “persuadable” voters (that there are no magical centrists who are gong to save America with their magical sobriety and even handedness)) is bad news for fucking fuckstick collaborators like Chris Coons.
It also should mean that the Democrats finally been forced into a “base mobilization” strategy, but who knows if Biden and the Dems have the capacity to pick up the clue phone while it rings off the hook?*
But what does it mean for America? My sense is that it is a good thing also long as the left fields an army willing to fight. On that note, maybe it is a bad thing?
*That’s an old-timely metaphor in need of updating.
It might mean we’re fucked, destined to swing from one extreme to the other forever (or until the country destroys itself). As administrations go back and forth, each side would just undo the work of the previous one, following Trump’s example.That’s better than the neo-fascists having free reign, but it would still be a shitty way to live. If the center’s dead, then it’s dead, but let’s don’t bury it before we have to. Or maybe the virus and its aftermath will make all this irrelevant. In fact it’s starting to feel that way already.
Hmmm… I guess the alternative is cooperating ourselves into wingnut oblivion.
No thanks.
On average about 55% turnout to vote and on average the result is usually a swing of less than 7%. So there’s the middle – the 45% who don’t vote because they feel no one represents them
Other than the pragmatic Obama, nobody in the last 50 years has motivated the middle to vote.
Bill Clinton? Jimmy Carter? Or maybe your definition of “middle” is different from mine.
No. My definition of reality might be though. Pretending we can turn the clock back to 1992 seems unproductive to me.
I’m just saying they were considered to be more or less in the middle when they were elected.
And if you consider Biden “middle,” it’s farther left now than it was then.
This presumes that Biden’s positions — a dog’s breakfast of issues consistent only in pandering to the needs of any particular moment — have been arrived at from forethought. This assumes facts not in evidence.
This may be true, but he has moved somewhat to the left for whatever reason.