re: #194 robdouth

I get you, but look at some of the comments. Getting told your slip is showing for arguing that the logic is weak on one argument. Automatically taking a you’re with us or against us type argument. With a crazy right and a crazy left, what do you bother calling yourself then. Most people aren’t going to sit still for the long explanation of why you are not right or left. Independent always sounded like too much of a copout, and maybe if the connotation felt more like “educated and wise independent” I’d be more comfortable with it. Maybe it’s depressing cause the only thing that seems to make news is the craziness of the right or left. There’s no vocal majority in the middle that can say, “we’re mad as hell, and we’re not going to take it anymore.” It’s more just dump on the stupid politician more than anything.

Vocal majorities are lead by people from either wing, the middle does not rise on its own. The problem is that much, if not most of the GOP is being turned to slime by a Religious Right obsessed with purity that also cares only for motives, not real results. There is no energy in the Republican Party challenging that obsession at this time, whereas the Democrats do have sizable “Blue Dog” wing that is acting as a check on the left wing of that party (see the current health care bill for an illustration).