I have been privileged for several months to guest-post here at The Moderate Voice. When Joe Gandelman, the proprietor of this site, first asked me to guest-post he mentioned it was because he felt that I did not take ideological stances but instead thought each issue through.
Recently, I’ve been reading many different weblogs who accuse moderates of being “mushy” or always “splitting the difference and sacrificing principles”. I suspect these accusations are merely to make their own rigid (and sometimes indefensible) ideological stance more palatable.
In response to this “demonization by definition”, and in deference to avoiding defining “moderate” on a weblog called The Moderate Voice at which I am a guest, at my weblog Random Fate I have posted my own definition of what constitutes a moderate, and it encompasses more than those ideologues and extremists realize.
I can only hope that the true moderate majority rejects the deadly, dangerous path that the ideologues of all stripes are urging us down.