A Rejection of Centrism

What is centrism? The ideological standpoint that dictates that the common neutral ground between two ideological extremes ought be the best of all possible outcomes. Centrism in the political United States has often been the greatest route to the greatest possible political recourse.

But let us give pause momentarily.

The recent FISA case as a model, centrism as it exists in the current United States has failed. After all, when the Democrats continue to appeal to the center and the Republicans appeal excluively to the insane fringe right, where does that leave us? It leaves us with a slow and steady trickle towards the mad imbecillic and utterly miserable proto-fascist regime that we've been living under for the past eight years. This was once a good place to live. FDR gave 3,000 dollars to every american citizen who went to college. In today's money I believe that's around 10,000 dollars. Once we valued education, standards, labor. Now what? What do we have in this enforced oligarchy consisting of corrupt businessmen and soulless merchants?

We have zero benefits. We have piddlings of social welfare systems, we have comparably immense disparities between rich and poor, and we have a governmental system that furthers and furthers this neo colonial global governing order called "globalization" a phenomena which no one is willing to concede, is completely artificial. Fareed Zakaria says globalization is inevitable, that it will be a boon to human society and raise the threshold of human existence globally and be condusive to a newer, better, more beautiful world. Yet what he fails to mention, conede, or note is that in the exportation fo capitalism and in the development of supposed interelated trade agreements, the disparity in power. We'll get back to that later but suffice to say: he is wrong. And were Barack Obama truly progressive he would be decrying this perverted international business entity that enforces the starvation of the masses for the benefit of the few.

But this is where we are. When the supposed "most liberal senator in Congress" toes the middle ground in between the true middle and the fascist wing of the American political system. We need a third party. Now more than ever. Even Israel which has appropriated the GOP for its own Likud has a tri party system spanning Labour, Centrist, and Likud. We need a third party, it's time for the liberals to get a say again.