The imaginary center
March 4, 2009 – 7:40 pmI love when the blatherers talk about “the center”. It reminds me of a top talker’s frequent excoriation, rightly, of “moderates”. Listen to a partisan lefty talking about Obama “governing from the center”. The center of what? 1934 Moscow? Folks on the right aren’t exempt always trying to pad themselves with “center-right” or other such silliness.
The current administration is as left as it gets. It might be “center” to George Soros or Dennis Kucinich but that’s no level.
The media, yes all of it, are tools. Make sure your read a wide variety of sources and base your outlook on demonstrable facts rather than wishy washy “centrists”.
In this age of offend no one political correctness we should understand that it is ok to have firm principles. Fortunately, our firm priniciple is American Freedom.
2 Responses to “The imaginary center”
There is a very odd brain condition that causes one to deny the existence of a portion of one’s own visual field. I forget the name, but saw it on a science show on the working of the human brain.
If certain neural connections are damaged, the patient can’t see a portion of that visual field, and much like some special effects computer programs, the portion seen fills in the rest of the visual field, leaving everything else crowded off to the side. People with this condition, when asked to draw what they see, produce artwork that’s extremely lopsided on their drawing paper.
I think of leftist politicians and commentators as people with this condition. They can only see what is to the left on our more ordinary mental model of the American political spectrum. Their flawed mental model crowds the right, and even the center off the page, putting leftists in severe denial.
Some leftists may genuinely believe the entire conservative movement is fake, just as those patients, when asked about what they don’t see, deny its existence vociferously.
By Sally Morem on Mar 5, 2009
We CAN take advantage of the “centrist Democrats”, too. Here is a little gem:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/05/three-dems-wavering-on-card-check-in-the-senate/
When I interviewed Senator Jim DeMint at CPAC, he predicted that Republicans could get three Democratic votes in the Senate to keep the most radical parts of Barack Obama’s agenda from succeeding. Greg Sargent at the Plum Line blog for the Washington Post says that the same three DeMint named may be shifting to support Card Check, one of the worst pieces of legislation on the Obama agenda. If so, the Republicans may not be able to block it:
You know what to do:
* Mary Landrieu (D-LA): 202-224-5824
* Blanche Lincoln (D-AR): 202-224-4843
* Mark Pryor (D-AR): 202-224-2353
And why not call the Porkulus Three as well?
* Susan Collins: 202-224-2523
* Olympia Snowe: 202-224-5344
* Arlen Specter: 202-224-4254
Remember to be polite; the people that answer the phones are not political partisans but just working folk.
By Mutnodjmet on Mar 5, 2009