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Puddintame.

The political center? Sad to say, I’m the political center. Which is scary enough, because I really don’t like the Left anymore. I never cared for the far-right, but the Left has earned a certain enmity with me in a post-9/11 world.

The fact people like me have turned on the Left and the Democratic party after 9/11 should give people pause. But it doesn’t. We’re just radical neo-cons and the like while the fantasy “center” who paid attention to the New York Times and actually believed a word of the bs coming from Democratic politicians goes on being mourned, a mythical constituency.

And they wonder why they keep losing elections.

I had an intense debate with someone last night who had very strong ideas about this whole issue. His basic premise was that radical right republicans, like what we see on this site, have so skewed the national debate that the only way to bring that back to the center is to advocate an equally radical leftish agenda.

I appreciate his viewpoint and logic that to bring things back to the center you must apply an equal, opposite force. However, politics is not physics and I think he’s unequivically wrong.

It’s time for the centrists of American politics to stop being fascinated by the histrionics of radical factions both on the left and the right. Are we not all just tired of the fractious nature of modern politics? The finger pointing and the name calling and the crazy ideas that make the leadership of the country one big joke?

It’s time for the centrists of the country to just say “enough.” It’s time for the centrist to turn off Bill O’Reilly, write letters to the editor of newspapers to demand the removal of columns like Ann Coulter and Peggy Noonan and Michael Moore et al. and make it clear that, without having to go to an opposite crazy extreme, that these people do not represent the majority of people in the United States. Their viewpoints may be valid personal expressions but the authority and the attention they receive, and more importantly the influence and money they garner from that are gross examples of how the centrist ego has been completely undermined.

Pundits like this have learned to thrive, both for attention and financial incentive, on being controversial. It’s clear to me, as I hope it should be to everyone else, that although there may be true sentiment in their words, there’s absolutely no reason to trust them. They receive their living from stirring up trouble, from being bat-shit crazy on national TV, from writing books with controversial, undocumented or even made up rhetoric all for the money. And regular people like you and me are rendered powerless because we don’t have some nutso sound-bites. We’re suddenly not interesting enough to have money or power or influence because our viewpoints aren’t tweaked enough. This is the true silent majority, or perhaps I should say not interesting enough majority.

These radicals do not represent the general feeling of people in the United States. Period. And when we look at them, we somehow don’t make the connect that these people do harm even while they’re dragging attention away from the more important, and overwhelmingly larger consciousness of the middle.

So I feel it’s time for the middle to take back the spotlight and influence and expose these people for what they are and stop giving them exactly what they want. No more money, no more TV exposure, no more book sales, no more political influence, no more business deals that are designed to make regular people seem insignificant and unworthy of being listened to. When they thrown out a crazy idea, we say “you’re crazy” and return and focus on the important things in our lives. When we refuse to get sucked up in this craziness we take away their power. When we expose the shenanigans and then move on, we reclaim the right to make decisions and lead in a way that can make our country proud.

Until those who post here acknowledge that their ideas do not represent the mainstream, I personally won’t be adding fuel to the fire just to spawn more traffic to your already overexposed, partisan site. GayPatriot has now entered the Coulter, O’Reilly, Malkin area of controversy for controversy’s sake (not to mention financial and celebrity rewards). There’s just a lot of hollow, partisan sentiment here now, not real dialogue, that only serves to promote Dan and Bruce. So enjoy guys. I look forward to the karma you sow. Should be interesting.

By the way, feel free to yank this if you want but I’ve already posted my sentiments to my blog.

Finally got the re-write completed on The Dark Place, the first of two projects I’d scheduled for revision over the summer. Yes, I realize summer is technically over, but you see, classes at UCLA don’t start for another two weeks,…

Another way is that Gay Conservatives have figured out how to be gay within the American mainstream and even among those who tolerate but disapprove.

Do you realize that one’s political philosophy has no bearing on whether they are “assimilated” into the mainstream?