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Do Away With Partisan Politics, We Need A Centrist

To The Readers’ Forum:

It’s pretty wild to think that the election was only three weeks ago. It’s even wilder to think that over 120 million Americans voted for one of two vacant, unlikeable, self-absorbed criminals. Imagine that — the supermajority of the voter population in the United States pulled that stunt. There was no attempt to seek alternatives after the primaries — despite the general disgust for the candidates on both ends. Yet, in typical disturbing fashion, Americans and politicians conceded their independence and common sense to partisan politics. We first saw Republican leaders start to fall behind Crazy-Bus Donald Trump; then, we saw Democrat dissidents sell-out for Queen Hillary Clinton.

The most amazing part about this election season is the exposure of supporters of both party bosses to be mirror images of each other — the electorate is inundated with over a hundred million ignorant, hypocritical voters on both left and right. I could run down the hypocrisies but it would take a dozen letters to the editor. It gets even worse when you view the fringe right and the fringe left. Both fringes are yanking the center apart. We have the Libertarian right who believe in absurdly simplified economic policies based in fantasy; the false conception that wealthy people and corporations aren’t greedy so we should give them every incentive to continue to expand income inequality. Then, we have the ‘Socialist’ left — a part of the spectrum that believes if you dump money into the pockets of the poor, they’ll somehow magically not waste it. Both of these fantasy theories ignore the fact that nearly every human who exists on this Earth are selfish. Poor, rich, black, white, old, young, whatever. And most are incredibly ignorant as well.

Worst of all, each end of this spectrum (especially the far left which hates everything that doesn’t coincide with its wants) subjects the center to increasing punishment. Then again, the center is the status-quo — which is a long road to failure. What we need are not moderates though — but centrists. They are not the same thing (despite what your ideologue fringe-friend says). Centrists don’t exist on the spectrum, they exist outside of it. They don’t follow party lines or biases of thought or absurd theories. They are typically folks who analyze each issue individually and assess as logically and rationally as possible. I could elaborate farther and will do so in a future letter to the editor. Seek out centrists — they have answers and they won’t blow smoke.

Mike Hultin,

Angola

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