{"id":36216,"date":"2018-07-26T17:40:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T22:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36216"},"modified":"2018-07-26T17:40:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T22:40:57","slug":"centrism-is-dead-and-it-never-really-existed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36216","title":{"rendered":"Centrism is Dead (And It Never Really Existed)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Centrism is Dead (And It Never Really Existed)<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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It\u2019s a common refrain these days to hear people lament a decline of the so-called \u201ccenter\u201d in American politics. We\u2019re supposed to look on in horror as \u201cmoderate\u201d Republicans and Democrats become an engaged species of liberty-fighting patriots steamrolled by frothing, insane hordes of populist barbarians on their left and right flanks. They\u2019re the voice of reason, lovers of apple pie and staunch defenders of our constitution and all that\u2019s good and right in the US of A. We\u2019re encouraged to run back into the blood soaked arms of establishment politicians like John McCain and Hillary Clinton \u2014 the only ones standing between us and the Donald Trumps and Bernie Sanders of the world. The center cannot hold, so we\u2019re told.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a nice story, the only problem is it\u2019s complete and total nonsensical garbage. This mythical \u201ccenter\u201d is nothing more than a failed status quo attempting to rebrand itself in the wake of being outed as the corrupt charlatans they are. Russia, Trump and \u00a0Bernie Sanders didn\u2019t destroy healthcare, bailout criminal bankers and invade Iraq based on fake news. No, moderate Republicans and Democrats did that. The so-called celebrated center did that.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, it\u2019s crucial not to accept their phony terms. What these professional con artists are now marketing as centrism is in reality just entrenched donor-based politics. If you want to call endless imperial wars and the transformation of the U.S. into a rigged neo-feudal hunger games economy centrism, be my guest. I\u2019d call it the result of decades of political apathy during which rapacious donors purchased the political process while nobody was looking. Well we\u2019re looking now, and we\u2019re not too happy about what we see.<\/p>\n

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Centrism is Dead (And It Never Really Existed) It\u2019s a common refrain these days to hear people lament a decline of the so-called \u201ccenter\u201d in American politics. We\u2019re supposed to look on in horror as \u201cmoderate\u201d Republicans and Democrats become an engaged species of liberty-fighting patriots steamrolled by frothing, insane hordes of populist barbarians on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20994,980,4285,6174,979,827],"class_list":["post-36216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-centrism","tag-democrat","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger","tag-republican","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36217,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36216\/revisions\/36217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}