This paper is quite refreshing and tracks with a site I mentioned the other day for a show on FSTV that I feel has the most informative political discussion: h

This paper is quite refreshing and tracks with a site I mentioned the other day for a show on FSTV that I feel has the most informative political discussion: https://www.thomhartmann.com https://www.thomhartmann.com Like him, I consider myself part of the radical center, which is the opposite of moderate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_middle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_middle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thom_Hartmann#Political_views https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thom_Hartmann#Political_views So I have strong liberal and conservative views which form a self-consistent graph of evidence in my mind. Unfortunately it can be kind of lonely sometimes, because nearly all corporate news plays propaganda in opposition to some of my most fundamental values. That can lead to acute feelings of isolation, especially considering the increasingly partisan politics that have played out over the last 20 years, starting around 9/11, but going all the way back to my earliest memories of Carter, George H.W. Bush and Reagan talking past one another about such obviously logically inconsistent topics as trickle-down economics. What it all comes down to is that I view our present reality as contrived and based on false pretenses. If people knew what was really going on, there'd be no way they could stay moderate. Which is why vast sums of money are spent to keep people in the dark and/or disenfranchised to keep supermajorities in political districts (or whole states like mine) so the parties can maintain the status quo. But stuff like student loan forgiveness is the first time in my entire life where I've seen signs that the political tides might be turning. It's worth considering why ideas like that are so controversial. Controversy means that a debate is 50/50. If half the country believes something that strongly, then it can't be dismissed out of hand. We could see some real progress on a number of fronts play out rather quickly.