re: #151 SteveMcG

How do we avoid swinging back and forth between the loony left and the radical right? The middle ground is larger than each extreme. There are plenty of Blue Dogs to mitigate the liberal movement, but when that middle swings back to the right, it will just empower the radicals. When it swings back, the reverse.

We don’t.

The loony left is not in power now. The radical right was not in power under Bush.

We are a profoundly centrist country. We just have to build better walls to keep the Bachmanns and the Palins out of power, even in positions that don’t really matter.

Of course, in a land where Jesse Ventura can be governor of a state, there will always be slip-ups.