|
I agree with you in part, but not entirely. I actually think that the majority of Americans are moderates. They?re neither liberal nor conservative, they?re somewhere happily nestled between those two extremes.
However, the media, the political parties, both harp on the extremists. Who makes for a better news story...the guy that?s willing to compromise or the guy that?s got his feet firmly planted left or right and willing to spew hatred? The news is about infotainment now and they go for those hate mongers.
Just look at the Presidential Candidates for the last few years. Gore, Kerry, Dubya?really all three are polarized to the core of their party and winning the primaries because they were most aligned with their party base. I don?t think they were representative of all of America though.
Regardless of what gets said of Nixon, the one thing he had correct was there existed in America this vast silent majority. To me, I?m part of that majority, I tend to be very moderate in my political views, the candidates I like tend to fall somewhere in the middle, and I?ve felt pretty much disappointed with most of the candidates I had to choose from. The one election I did feel good about was voting for Clinton?s second term, because he really proved to be moderate in many ways.
This silent moderate majority needs to find a voice in today's political atmosphere...if they don't, then I agree with you that America will be torn apart by hate.
__________________
See Sig...oh wait.
|