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Originally Posted by Itse
That article IMO fundamentally misunderstands why people are supporting Sanders and Trump.
To me, the article seems to say that both parties should abandon their radical sides and get back to middle-ground establishment politics. Problem is, people for a large part either hate the middle-ground establishment politics, or they don't care.
Abandoning the extremist views is not a cure to the cancer, because the extremists are not the cancer. Heck, they're more like the life-support. They give people some reason to get interested in politics.
The real cancer of American politics is that the middle-ground politicians are too afraid to look like they have significant ideological differences with their opponents. Everybody wants to be something for everybody.
I think the low point of that was Bush v. Gore election. Two guys trying to claim the middle-ground so hard that it was almost embarrassing. Heck, a lot of the time it WAS embarrassing.
Although really if you want to put the blame somewhere, I think it would be the New Democrats of the early nineties, lead by Bill Clinton.
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Yet, economically, his pragmatic economic policies were perhaps the most effective of any President.
Pragmatism, to me, is a virtue.