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Wouldn't this be great? Let's go back to the center and get things done!

Yup, it would be great. The problem is defining what the 'center' is.

Which means we need to shift dramatically towards the left. However, between brainwashed nationalists and braindead fundamentalists, we'll be ebbing right for a while yet, I suspect. What we need is a serious bloodletting. Give the zealots of various flavors a satisfactory arena to hurl themselves against each other. What with the ignorant breeding at more than 3 times the rate of the educated, it's sort of inevitable when you think about it. Eventually the critical mass of ignorance renders civilized, rational behavior such a minority that it all but disappears amid the white noise.

The group's goal is to start a centrist equivalent to the Tea Party movement on the right and MoveOn on the left. It sees an opportunity based on the defeat of liberal Republicans in recent years and the heavy losses taken by conservative Democrats in 2010.

Third-party movements of the center, including most recently Unity '08, have a poor track record if they are not associated with a strong candidate, such as Teddy Roosevelt in 1912 or Ross Perot in the 1990s.
'No Labels' Movement Aims for Political Middle

Even Teddy lost due to the two party system and he was our strongest chance at being able to change the blight on our Political System. All claim to Love and Respect George Washington, yet none heed his words about the two party system. Two True Republicans, both heroes, both revered, both not only leading by example.....but both giving us the solution to solve the problem. The answer was in history.....where it was always in plain sight!

Teddy had a great idea about limiting the power of corporations. He made some good moves.

He was also an unapologetic imperialist racist, and his foreign policies ultimately led us to an ungodly evil war with Japan, not to mention resulted in the torture, rape and death of hundreds of thousands of Koreans, Chinese, Philipinos, and more. Teddy's political career would have ended unceremoniously at perhaps the county level in this day and age, perhaps as the subject of one of those satirical interviews on The Colbert Report.

How true where today in this day and age that the Media influences 98% of the Sheep.......althought at least T. Roosevelt was a hero....and the first President to ever reicieve the Nobel Peace Prize.....Nothing wrong about wanting to ensure the sovernty of the United States.....dealing with treaties already in place there is only so much one can do. Yes he was against corporations and their globalistic agenda but more so on their ability to control politicians and not play behind the laws of the states when having to deal with the Fed. Though his concept about us not being involved in the affairs of others.....kinda puts him at odds with your so called imperialistic agenda. Moreover which would lead to one of his greatest lines. Walk softly and carry a big stick.

There is no doubt that he would be ridiculed by those very important cogs of socitey.....the Comedians. For Democrats cannot think to quick enough to defend themselves when put under pressure. But hey when half the sheep think that Bill Maher actually has solutions for this country.....it would not surprise me if the left chose a clown for for the Presidency.

Im all for getting rid of labels but isnt calling yourself a centrist in itself a label? Of course it would be nice to get rid of this partisan bickering and let logic take the forefront for the first time in a long time. But Is centring ourselves the way to do it? How about we replace these left right centre labels with a bit of logic.

No more of this:

Person A: " The poor should have a safety net in place by the government for when they hit hard times."

Person B: "You're a commie and you hate america."

Person B: "Maybe private charities should replace welfare."

Person A: " You hate poor people and want them to starve in the street."

Too much of american debate consists of this knee jerk rubbish... We dont need to centre ourselves we need to be reasonable if our congressman actually would drop the politics of it all and take time to listen and debate other perspectives we would be in a much better place right now. So yes get rid of the labels and debate the idea. As for centring ourselves hell no. To me centring yourself is just a politically correct way of saying postituting your principles.