About the mythology of the center

[Rebkeh]

I don't care what the media keeps trying to project, I know what my eyes tell me. America is not centrist nor are we even close to it.

We are a people who idolize Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, Jesus Christ, Mother Teresa — individuals who represent solidarity, kinship and empathy. We respect and agree with the teachings that call us to revolution; to fight for all our fellow human beings; to deeply, truly transform the injustice and corruption long imbedded in human society; to eliminate such a tragic non-necessity as poverty with the institution of fair pay, health care, equal education, decent working conditions and financial reform.

We are a people who lionize the 1776 revolution, who look up to and admire those who stood strong against inequality.

I remember the baffling questionnaires that indicated that people loved The Affordable Care Act but despised Obamacare. We are still dissonant, only now we do this with Democratic Socialism. We are not divided, we are more united than ever.

But don't simply take my word for it, read:

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernie-sanders-showing-country-much-more-progressive-you-think

[valerief]

1. We don't really cotton to the categories TPTB put us in. We just like the truth. A lot.

I guess that makes us Truthist.

[mmonk]

2. The center used to be an ending point as opposed

to a starting point. That is why the government has moved so far right the last 30 + years.