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In reply to the discussion: When a Centrist Independent is a more reliable vote for Democrats than, well, some Democrats... [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)They run from Evan Bayh to Joe Lieberman to a Nelson to a Landrieu to a Snowe back around to a Warner, and on and on.
They like to be parts of "No Labels", the DLC, New Democrats, Blue Dogs, and anything else but Democrat and sure as the day is long not to be confused with liberal by any stretch.
It also is an indicator (though I have to grant not indicative) that what I describe is in play when the absolutely astonishingly absurd proposition is laid out that the media in any way promotes anything resembling an extreme left for anyone to have a need to establish themselves in a "center" between the furthest point left in the acceptable spectrum of mass politics and the furthest point right because if you did such a thing you would be posting up to the right of Reagan based on a nonsensical calculation and an ideology that revolves around 'Goldilocks and The Three Bears' or something.
There is no magic in the medium cup and the actual volume of what is offered as that medium cup may change with time. Depending on the actual size sometimes the same person may be fine with a small at one place, need a large the next stop, and a medium is bang on at a third place. You believe in what you believe not some strategic calculation in relationship to mass media narratives. That doesn't make sense, it sounds between misleading and nonsensical, but maybe that is just how it hits me.