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Actually the OWS movement

Beetlejuice — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:59:00 +0000

Actually the OWS movement occupies the political center which happens to the left of the Democratic Party ... they moved to the right to occupy the hill in the conservative domain once the Republicans moved their center to the extreme right.

But what's important to realize about the OWS is that it's made up of people from both Party's that have becomes disenfranchised because the values of each party has shifted too far away from the center where they felt comfortable.

So the nestling I referred to would be taking a little old-style conservatism and old-style liberalism and morphing it into a political discussion that attacks both major party's using their own techniques but moving in a direction tangent to each of the major party's ... in the direction the public demands instead.

Personally, I'd like to

Verified Atheist — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:40:34 +0000

In reply to I was watching a video of

Personally, I'd like to believe that if we were to find a viable third party, it wouldn't be nestled between the other two, and that it would even lie on the same line that those two points define. (I was going to say something about not even lying on the same plane, but 3 points define a plane, so…)

I was watching a video of

Beetlejuice — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:36:04 +0000

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I was watching a video of Bill Moyers with Jim Hightower ... April 30, 2010 ... and Hightower was pretty heavy on populism. He spent considerable time going over the roots of the movement ... started in Texas in 1877. It made me think perhaps the Occupy Wall Street movement, while being the unofficial political center, might be the start of a movement towards populism as the means by which they will force the two-party system to listen. It will take a message the resonates with those disenfranchised with both party's and not happy with selecting the lesser of two evils all while ignoring a third possibility nestled between the two ... after all the political center is made of of people from both party's turned off by both party's movements away from the base they once supported.

Hightower noted the tea-baggers were the closest thing to mirror the populist movement. So it would be a possibility, if the OWS people work all the angles to widen their charter to encompass more of what the public finds disgusting with the major party ideologies ... such as both sides working towards compromise legislation rather than one party rule while the other filibusters ad nauseam.

In a nutshell, a populist movement aimed at cutting through the politics and getting down to settling on legislation aimed at the economy, jobs, taxes, working class and working poor as well as social services and how to pay for it would have a wide public support as long as it addresses concerns equitably. A populist elected to Congress would work with both party's to get to solutions that benefits both sides of the issue.

It's a pipe dream, but if the crazier-tha-thou crowd from the GOPer base could pull it off, so to could the OWS.

Amusing thought, but I don't

Michael Wolraich — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:18:46 +0000

In reply to Maybe this whole "move to the

Amusing thought, but I don't think it counts as trolling if you state your preferences outright. (Unless your suggesting the Bill Keller is a covert right-wing Republican.)

Maybe this whole "move to the

RepubAnon — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:33:49 +0000

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Maybe this whole "move to the center" meme is a form of concern trolling aimed at moving Democrats further to the right?

LOL...thanks Dan. I needed

trkingmomoe — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:02:22 +0000

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LOL...thanks Dan. I needed that laugh. I am in the middle of passing a kidney stone...LOL.

hahahahaahahahahahahah I

Richard Day — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:13:04 +0000

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hahahahaahahahahahahah

I hereby render unto DanK the Dayly Line of the Day Award for this here Dagblog Site, rendered to all of his ass from all of me. hahahahahahahahaahah

On the basis of such

Dan Kervick — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:48:11 +0000

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On the basis of such incontrovertible evidence, Keller argued that Obama and Romney must move to the center,

They are already in the center. What does he want them to do, start fondling each other?

Thanks, DD. I used to write

Michael Wolraich — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:52:40 +0000

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Thanks, DD. I used to write more funny but trying write all professional beat it out of me, I think. I'm trying to get back a little of it in my dag posts.

But hark! You frickin

Richard Day — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:40:56 +0000

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But hark!

You frickin hypocrite. hahahahahahah

Whilst you hark, hark on this. hahhahah

I hit Avlon who has perfect hair and now finds himself on cable smiling so nicely.

And I hit Frum who seemed so marvelous last year and a few years ago whilst he castigates right nutsfield.

Of course we must recall that Frum wrote lies after lies after lies for a POTUS (I hate that frickin word) who could barely read a teleprompter!

Oh, keep on keepin on or whatever crap that lying idiot kept repeating in 2006. Oh yeah, stay the course!

You know, you are funnier lately. I don't know what it is. But I really (no snark intended) but you are really funny. hahahahaha

Pundits are paid to be stupid. Todd would astound me three or five years ago. Now Todd just pisses me off! I recall when he got into it with Joe S and Joe S just shut him down like that poor waif who is now with CURRENT.

Okay, give me a middle?

We should tax the successful, ask for some sacrifice from idiots in my class and hit the middle for something.

That is a nice middle.

Oh the repubs would say, you cannot tax the rich in a recession--a recession which the repubs caused because they appointed foxes as regulators over the henhouses (read Bobby Kennedy Jr--which you certainly have already read) and they managed to take the monies necessary as bribes from corporate America to rescind or abolish regs established during the FDR Administration.

The chess game became this:

Okay, the right is NAZI Germany in the 30's and the left is Jimmy Carter.

Okay, so the middle is Ronny Reagan when he was gov of Cal.

What the hell is that?

The only reason Wall Street split their contributions in 2008 was to hedge their bets because they saw that they were screwed. So they gave 59% to repubs and the rest to Obama so that they would not go to jail.

There is no middle.

It all revolves around how much corporate dick s&^^**&ing the dems are willing to involved themselves in.

Karl is still out there pulling in hundreds of millions of dollars with Pudge running the numbers and...

Well there is no hope.

I read these Pinnochio threads and the real politique? claiming to call out liars....

This is bologna.

Oh Romney was only kinda lying. Two Pinnochios.

To end my rant (as if I ever end my rant):

There is a class war going on out there. And the upper echelon is responsible for that warfare and that UE wins every frickin time except when one sheriff in Illinois or one dem in some irrelevant district stands up to be counted or when our POTUS (I hate that word) says:

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

Does anyone really think that Cantor gives one goddamn about Americans?

Does anyone really think that Issa gives one goddamn about Americans?

Does anyone really think that McDonnell gives one goddamn about Americans?

Does anyone really think that Boehner gives one goddamn about Americans?

Does anyone really think that the NRA or ALEC gives one goddamn about Americans?

Does anyone really think that hate radio gives one goddamn about Americans?

Sorry.

I had this itch I just had to scratch.

I mean, good post!