"On Friday's Today show, MSNBC's Chris Matthews defended his ludicrous
decision to ask the GOP candidates if it would 'be good for America to have Bill
Clinton back living in the White House?' Matthews explained the sociological
insight: 'They all sort of guffawed. Well, that's a particularly Republican
response. If I offered that same question up to Democrats...they would be
cheering like mad.' "
The left and the right are waging a war right now, and for the most part it isn't on each other. The main focus of both their attacks is on the middle. The above is a clear example of how this war is working. When someone sits in the position in the middle of the electoral spectrum they will make comments that at one time will lean to the left and at others will lean to the right. The tactics of the extremes are working close together on this point, every comment made by someone in the center that leans to the right is attacked by those on the left. The left will attack any statement that is made that leans to the right. Often they will attack the same person, each attempting to suggest that the comments made by that person are an attack.
The above example is the clearest I have seen in some time, because here the moderator is being attacked for being liberal. The assumption is that this question was asked as part of a liberal agenda. However the same question was attacked by people on the left as being a part of a right-wing agenda. What you don't hear any more is an acceptance of views or people in the middle of the spectrum.
I think that the politics of attack is unproductive and bad for America. As a person who finds myself in the center politically I think that the center needs to be respected. Attempting to shove everyone to the left and the right artificially creates a false tension in politics that isn't demonstrated in reality.
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