>>>>>I try to be a centrist because I think blind extremism often goes bad.
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>>>>Except it's hard to be a centrist when both sides are so far to the same side ;).
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>>>Which side is that? Will you expand on that please?
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>>I did, several times. On my scale between extreme left and extreme right, going from -10 to +10, Dems score about 7.5, Goppers score 8.5. The center is still at zero, not at 8.0.
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>What we need is a good man like Trotsky <g>.

Now you made me re-read the long article about him. And know what, anyone who opposes the bureaucratic hardliner and fist-on-table-thumper like Stalin is somehow the guy who has my sympathies. Of course, his idea to organize trade unions as military units is completely insane from today's perspective... but the times must have been very interesting indeed, for such an idea to be born at all.