"The Centrist Brain Caste" -"The Powerful Dead-Enders Of A Dying American Empire"

[kpete]

FROM DRIFTGLASS:


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Centrists have been trained like circus seals to automatically favor the everybody-compromise=and-split-the-difference "solution" to any problem -- real or manufactured -- because Centrists are basically lazy and chickenshit and not very bright.

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As the Left represents the best hope for the restoration of a more perfect American union, the brain caste of the Center represents the powerful dead-enders of a dying American Empire -- a weak and gutless group of cynics and hacks with no fixed beliefs about anything, who have demonstrated repeatedly that they can be stampeded this way and that by the proper application of pressure.

Centrist leaders have a lot of fun jawboning about Murrica, but in fact have no use for democracy or the Middle Class or, really, any part of America outside of imperial enclaves of New York, LA and Washington D.C. Centrist leaders do not especially fear the nutjob Right, but rather as an invaluable source of leverage in the "both sides to it" scam that keeps them large and in charge, and as a vital insurance policy against the Left ever gaining power in exactly the same way the Vice Presidencies of the gargoyle-ish Dick Cheney and imbecilic Dan Quayle were insurance policies against anyone taking potshots at Bush the Younger or Bush the Elder.

Instead, like all members of an decadent imperial court, Centrist leaders fear only the loss of face, the loss of status and the loss of income.

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The rest (mho - i loved it!)
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2011/07/dead-center-ctd.html

[Fumesucker]

1. Ouch.. That one is going to leave a mark..

:toast:

[PATRICK]

2. The split difference between

a nice suited Centrist on a throne or in a coffin is the roadkill position. In reality all are prone and prone to be removed. Their nature is only to be an obstruction, a proud one admittedly, but a mere placeholder. The GOP is clear about making death as the Left is clear, but kind of weak in power, in promoting actual life. The so-called left wonders why they are being labeled at all by the functionally insane and whether humoring that alienation principle is counter productive. Most people are forced by injustice just to become Candide.

[MisterP]

3. in 1945-55 the center was against McCarthy for tarnishing the name and effectiveness

of the purges

[Karmadillo]

4. K&R

nt

[BulletproofLandshark]

5. "Centrists are basically lazy and chickenshit"

Agreed. Nothing but a bunch of cowardly fence-sitters.

[lunatica]

6. I love that kind of writing

To me it's a mixture of brilliant intelligence, a unique perspective and being profoundly liberal for all the right reasons. People like this must scare the shit out of people like Kurtz because they know they're outsmarted, outclassed and mentally pathetic in comparison.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

7. "...a weak and gutless group of cynics and hacks with no fixed beliefs about anything."

Yet, they're taken seriously. What a world.