re: #237 Daniel Ballard

Uh huh. Well I’m stuck with the common frame of reference conversationally just like everyone else.

Yes. That ‘left’ means ‘Democrats’ and ‘right’ means Republicans.

I still don’t see anything that fails to support that most Presidents get drawn for whatever reason to the middle.

If you’re just making the obvious statement that the other party exists and has some input, thus requiring compromise, then sure. But that’s a truism, so I figured you weren’t saying something so unnecessary.

And I still see no answer as to why this whole line of questioning left and right is aimed at me in particular instead of anyone else or GDF who made the point to begin with. Darn near everyone here uses these terms.

Because you’re talking about centrism. I don’t know how I can be clearer about this. “Reality has a liberal bias” is a true statement these days: reality more accords to the Democrats version of things than the Republicans. That centrism even exists, or that Obama became more centrist, is not true.

I don’t mind if people talk about ‘left’ and ‘right’ instead of “Democrats” and “Republicans”. It’s still half-assed, but it’s fine. I do find it ridiculous when we then create the fiction of the ‘center’.