Not too squishy and feckless, not too hard and bristly, but somewhere in the middle. Is it time for a group that doesn’t have any true direction, but leads whichever way the political winds are blowing?
I’m talking about a centrist party. The political affiliation breakdown is 30% Republicans, 30% Democrats, and 40% independents. That squishy spineless center encompasses the majority of voters either two primary parties fight over every election cycle. It’s time they had a home.
I had thought for some time that the right would fracture and create a libertarian party, but it’s looking more like some on the left are just as disgusted with their party as they too have moved farther from the center.
So whataya say? Is it time for tail chasing leadership that you really don’t know from one day to the next what they stand for, other than against the other two options?
I would call that the Realist Party…some might call it “squishy” but I would call it understanding that issues we face don’t neatly fit into any ideologies.
The only “ideology” would be a systematic approach to problem solving which would “naturally” direct issues to be handled by those organizations (private, local, state or federal) that are best suited to deal with them.
And there are some principles in a Realist Party anyway.
Systematic approach to problem solving
True stakeholder involvement, not paid access
Realist approach to taxation- taxes are to pay for government, not influence behaviors we would “like to see” or reward certain groups.
I would love a third party, but what issues would either side compromise on to build the foundation? And would those issues build enough good will that the party could then move on to pricklier issues? I just don’t see that happening.
No he didn’t have to fire up his base. It was libs that resented everything that Trump purposed to fire up their base. Building a wall and securing our border was common sense policy. Pushing NATO to fund their share of their security was common sense policy. Avoiding more foreigner engagement was common sense policy. Giving incentives to build and bring back our industry was common sense policies.
So tell me Jay…which of those were used to fire up his base? I see the extreme left used that to fire up their base…and now you’re left with bunch of radical extremist nut cases running our government…the very people you are now claiming you don’t support?
So he had no set values then…He only went Conservative because the Conservative base didn’t piss him off. Sounds like a real tried and true Conservative.