re: #197 Daniel Ballard

Well right the reality was an obstructionist Republican controlled congress. Obama responded as necessary. Look you make a good case for your point but ya skipped my request. And my question.

Reality didn’t trump partisanship in that case, no. The reality was that there was a massive amount of partisanship.

So no, not better.

Again: Politics is far too complex for a simple line of ‘left’ and ‘right’. It’s too complex for two axes, or three. You can reach the same practical application from wildly different ideologies. The ‘left’ and ‘right’ designation only make sense in terms of party identification in this country, and being ‘centrist’ doesn’t carry any real meaning, nor is it a virtuous state. There are many times where one ‘side’ is so out of balance with the other that those in the ‘center’ are also very much in the wrong. Centrist implies balance. Balance does not exist.