Steven Thomma wonders about the future of Centrists in the article Does Obama’s rise mean less clout for Democratic centrists? They noted that while the Centrist Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) was meeting in Chicago Obama did not attend, even though he was home this weekend.
While I favor a Democratic take over of Government in order to correct GOP negligence and advance progressive policy, it stands to reason that the Democrats will also eventually spin out of control and descend into self dealing and other variations of corruption.
And this seems to me an opportunity for the DLC and the moderate Republican Leadership Council (RLC) to merge into one centrist organization to harness the growing ranks of independent and moderate voters. These groups have more in common with each other than they do with the extremists of their own parties.
Since many districts around the country lean heavy Conservative or Liberal it is unrealistic to expect candidates of opposite temperament to be elected. And so we will always have conservative and liberal representatives. But an influential Centrist organization can promote candidates, from either party, with pragmatic and collaborative sensibilities. This could provide the leverage in congress for just enough open mindedness and reasonable compromise to move our country forward through increasingly complex challenges in Health, Immigration, Energy, Environmental Protection…
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evolved out of his business experience that the best decisions come out of an objective gathering of information and a pragmatic consideration of costs and benefits. I am interested in promoting Centrist candidates and Policies. My posts are mostly about people and policies that I believe are part of the solution rather the problem.