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2016 Postmortem

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1. The center is where compromise is found...

Reply to CrowCityDem (Original post)

Fri May 27, 2016, 03:00 PM

May 2016

When the country is too far to the right (and elects tea party types) the best you can hope for is the center.

As long as we have a right wing media, the center is probably the best we can do. Anyone thinking that the president can forward a left wing agenda with a right wing congress doesn't understand our system of government.

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"The Center": Where is it? [View all] CrowCityDem May 2016 OP

The center is where compromise is found... Blanks May 2016 #1

The center is another word for corporatist. Skwmom May 2016 #2

There are no facts, only interpretations. Friedrich Nietzsche Tierra_y_Libertad May 2016 #3

Here, let me draw you a diagram Scootaloo May 2016 #4

Thumbs up mathewsleep May 2016 #5

A bell curve is the only way to define the center. MineralMan May 2016 #6