tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521847710874444875.post2411393931550011435..comments2024-01-04T11:29:50.296-08:00Comments on THE WULFSHEAD: And the WIENER is............Nausicaahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10316597236758211957noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521847710874444875.post-86288018663393442582011-01-23T19:08:28.630-08:002011-01-23T19:08:28.630-08:00I guess that's just the way the cookie crumble...I guess that's just the way the cookie crumbles.<br /><br />The "<i>sacred center</i>" has been invoked with various effects to peddle a variety of corporatist political policies and ideologies in the last few centuries.<br /><br />Interestingly enough, past invocations of a political "<i>third way</i>" or a "<i>middle way</i>" have included Italian Fascism under Benito Mussolini, Harold Macmillan's 1950s One Nation Conservatism, and Phillip Blond's Red Toryism, amongst others.<br /><br />The term is typically used nowadays by politicians who advocate Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan's style of economic deregulation, privatization, and globalization into the mainstream so-called "center-left" political parties.<br /><br />Sounds like Obama-ism to me.<br /><br />Granted, Barack Obama is no Ronald Reagan, but then again that's precisely the reason why Obama has been able to push an agenda that Reagan would never have been able to push through — not without the left up in arms as a result — not in a million years.<br /><br />And the man did it under a Democratic Congress, to boot!<br /><br />Look at the masterful unfolding of the PPACA. Reagan could never have achieved such a feat, not even under a Republican congress. While the idea of <a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_MyggqBCzOnY/TTzl-RR1ASI/AAAAAAAAAYo/X7YMMHXc3AY/s800/mandated_for-profit_insurance.JPG" rel="nofollow">mandated for-profit insurance</a> as an alternative to single-payer was originally a Republican idea, the GOP, ideologically, could never have endorsed the notion of "mandate" (any mandate—it just wouldn't sit well with their libertarian base) in Congress, not openly anyway.Jeremiahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10809395041902843768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521847710874444875.post-36364644147012740072011-01-23T16:26:18.991-08:002011-01-23T16:26:18.991-08:00Ah, the sacred center (referring to your Blueprint...Ah, the sacred center (referring to your Blueprint referral) which presumes the center is holy not because any argument favors it but because it doesn't presume the "extremism" of left or right.<br /><br />"Vanilla journalism" - with a touch of blond - is what we have today, alright.<br /><br />Though I think the motivation there is fierce personal ambition and a fundamental corporate desire for greater profit than any gross political idea. Those ideals following the desire for accommodation, personal gain, and coming out on top of the ratings. As well as a desire for riches.Quintyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04353505559085634434noreply@blogger.com