tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9278289.post5712845012678562787..comments2023-08-09T08:38:58.056-06:00Comments on don sees the world: Bless Her Heart!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16545028288945011823noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9278289.post-51588595972723897332011-01-17T05:03:22.340-07:002011-01-17T05:03:22.340-07:00My Dear Anonymous Reader,
Thank you for reading a...My Dear Anonymous Reader,<br /><br />Thank you for reading and commenting on my blog. <br /><br />You write: "But if it were not for the centrists who have fought valiantly throughout history to try to moderate the extremists of their times, mankind might have destroyed himself and the earth many years ago." Ah! The importance of moderation! <br /><br />Yes, that is the role of moderates, centrists, call us what you will. We help restore the balance to the system. As I have said, I don’t care whether you're extremist toward the right or the left, when you get too far from the center, you've gone too far!<br /><br />You ask a complex question. As a general rule, fiscally I am pretty conservative. Socially, I tend toward the liberal. I think that government has shown again and again that it is really bad at legislating morality. ("Prohibition" anyone?) I also think that if you expect your populace to live within their means, there is no rationale for the government not doing the same thing. It's a little like a parent spanking their child to teach the lesson that hitting your sibling is a bad thing.<br /><br />Thanks again for reading and commenting!<br /><br />DonAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16545028288945011823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9278289.post-35310053642399750472011-01-16T22:55:56.316-07:002011-01-16T22:55:56.316-07:00As usual your comment was brilliant (meaning that ...As usual your comment was brilliant (meaning that it was something I had not thought about before myself). We might think that today's political climate is dangerous and overly politicized. But if it were not for the centrists who have fought valiantly throughout history to try to moderate the extremists of their times, mankind might have destroyed himself and the earth many years ago. We should pay tribute to the centrists of the world who have placed themselves in the political crossfire, not for their own good, but for the good of mankind.<br /><br />I'm also curious about something. Could you please give me an example of an issue that you are a conservative on and an issue that you are liberal one? (I know that you are conservative about wanting people to get a ticket when they break the speed limit when they go past your house but could you give me an example of another issue that you are conservative on).<br /><br />Also, some people have said that the southern part of the United States is similar in some ways to South Africa. Being as you have lived in both places I was wondering if you had an opinion about that.<br /><br />Thanks,<br /><br />Anonymous ReaderAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9278289.post-18924355218035014612011-01-16T11:26:12.334-07:002011-01-16T11:26:12.334-07:00Dear Anonymous Reader:
Thank you for reading and...Dear Anonymous Reader: <br /><br />Thank you for reading and commenting on the blog! Interesting analogy. I have never thought of the Centrist view as being the police in the political discourse. <br /><br />I know you said something subtly different, but it is still an interesting concept. <br /><br />If, I am putting myself in the political crossfire I suppose that is just my lot in life. There are issues upon which I am fairly liberal, others on which I am pretty conservative. Anyone who is intellectually and politically honest, I think, covers a spread of the spectrum. <br /><br />And just like a world without police, think of how bad the political discourse would be without those voices calling people to the center to try and work-out a position everybody can agree on.<br /><br />Thanks again for your comments!<br /><br />DonAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16545028288945011823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9278289.post-68582580646417364412011-01-14T18:47:59.763-07:002011-01-14T18:47:59.763-07:00You said: "Being centrist, I will be the firs...You said: "Being centrist, I will be the first to say that pundits on both sides are responsible."<br /> <br />You are very brave to take a centrist view in today's political climate. In my view a centrist runs the same risk as a police officer who responds to a fight between a husband and a wife. I've heard that sometimes when the police officer arrives, the husband and wife will stop fighting each other and will temporarily make up because the hatred that they had for each other gets redirected towards the police officer. I guess that police officers have even been injured in some of these situations.<br /><br />On the surface, it appears that the police officers are peacemakers when this sort of event occurs. But the problem I think is that after the police officer (the centrist in my example)goes away, the hatred that the two sides (the husband and the wife) had for each other will once again grow to be just as bad or even worse than it was before. <br /><br />Anonymous ReaderAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com