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That is nice. But it sucks how misleading this title is. I would have completely missed this part of the article until you pointed it out.
by ghostbrainalpha 8y ago
That is nice. But it sucks how misleading this title is. I would have completely missed this part of the article until you pointed it out.
- jessaustin 8y agoOne of the two of us could stand to make our irony a bit more obvious. Brookings Institute poses as a "centrist non-partisan think tank", but as we see here is really just a sock puppet for the military-industrial complex, among other evil plutocratic interests. Like lots of "centrist non-partisan" organizations.
- mmirate 8y agoSorry for the pedantry, but ... this isn't a lie per se, rather usage of deceptively-meaningless terminology. Specifically, "centrism" of the American Left-Right dichotomy, is poorly defined. There are multiple ways to arrive at a balanced compromise between: * the Left's platform (use government to ensure everyone is fed, entertained, coddled and unoffended); and * the Right's platform (use government to exert Christian theocracy, and to earn bribes by exerting the largest pocketbooks' wills, even if that means building an empire). Two notable extremes of such compromise are: * use government to do everything under the sun, from wealth redistribution to world conquest (cf Horseshoe Theory); and * don't use government for anything for which it isn't absolutely necessary (cf libertarianism aka classical liberalism). IMHO classical liberalism is better than nationalist-socialism, and it seems you agree; but both positions could be described as "centrism" since they lie between the Left and the Right.
- jessaustin 8y agoThat seems to be a misrepresentation (not a lie per se?) of Horseshoe Theory? Those of us at the heel don't support world conquest. That is very much a toe thing. I would countenance a great deal of redistribution in exchange for a great deal less conquest.