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“Forward!” The New Centrist, Moderate Third Party
Andrew Yang, the failed Democratic presidential candidate (of which the country has no shortage) has launched a third political party called Forward! (and then backtracked a bit and described it as a “Political Action Committee) instead. The media are describing this new political party or PAC as a “centrist” alternative to the Democrat and Republican parties. Here are some of the centrist party’s centrist policies that are centrist.
- Universal Basic Income
- State-run (“universal”) health care
- Private financing of political campaigns replaced by government-allocated “democracy dollars”
- “Human-centered capitalism” and “alternative measures of economic growth”
Bush-Republicans Christie Todd-Whitman and David Jolly have already joined the new whatever-it-is. I wonder which Centrist policies hooked them in. Perhaps Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and Mitt Romney can join in all the moderate moderation as well.
The moderate centrist Forward party has already endorsed nine candidates in the 2022 elections, one Independent, one Libertarian, and seven Democrats.
The Forward party also “cites issues including guns, climate change and abortion as those that could benefit from a moderate approach” but has not described what that “moderate approach” would look like. I think we can guess.
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Perhaps they care claiming to be only moderately harmful, moderately anti American, moderately stupid.
…or slavery…🙄
I can hear it now: “Real National Socialism hasn’t been tried!”
I’m wondering what’s to the left of State-run (“universal”) healthcare.
I’m beginning to prefer the kind of hard left that is least honest about it. Like Antifa.
The worst lefties are 1.) those that call themselves “moderate” and 2.) those with impeccable conservative bonafides.
I forgot to mention the excruciatingly severe conservatives.
I Love It ! What a great political PARTY! Moderate Communist in their beliefs! Versus Hard shoot them all down in the streets without a thought Communist! That way one can always say to themselves they are still a good person after they arrest everyone they don’t agree with because you know they kinda deserved it! And then we are still soooooooo compassionate toooooo!
If this group siphons away Republican voters, then this will be celebrated. If it draws more Democrat voters, then all hell will break loose.
EXACTLY what we need. An American version of the British Labor Party. What a race it will be with the 3 parties racing to see who can spend us to death first.
I prefer the Yang Gang.
I guess its true.
Middle of the road politics stink. The only things in the middle of the road are a yellow line and a dead skunk.
The problem with moderate centrists is that they dont excite anyone – nobody goes door knocking for them… Its like an agnostic evangelist, nobody will stand on your door step, knock on your door to proudly proclaim “We dont know!”
I think we need a more clarifying division of politics, left vs right arent as meaningful as they once where – Trump for example, was all over the left-right spectrum on a policy by policy basis. I think populist vs elitist or libertarian vs socialist are more clarifying.
After marching up to the edge of the cliff, “Forward!” is definitely the direction to go.
There are any number of Roadrunner vs Wile E. Coyote cartoons that can illustrate how it’s done.
From your lips to Ben Cheviot’s ears:
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How is this different than Democrats? ESG, more central planning
I’m not saying I endorse the policy, but there needs to be a conversation on how it came to this. Andrew Yang brings it up and then he makes the conversation go as far backwards as one person can. What an idiot.
The local principles first group had this on their agenda a couple weeks ago. Some of them were actually falling for rank choice voting.
It’s a party for failed GOP candidates and Democrats that have not been elected to anything.
Honestly I can’t think of a platform less likely to siphon away Republican votes than this. If you really wanted a moderate party you would have to have at least one plank that could appeal to conservatives. Simply being anti-woke isn’t enough. This is basically 2006 liberalism.
It isn’t middle of the road. It is about a foot to right of the progressive democratic party of today. I am only assuming that mind you because none of the planks are overtly woke. It also doesn’t mention any of the social issues. Which means it is basically a splinter group of the left.
Quite frankly I don’t even think it would appeal to moderate republicans because the spending is too great. Moderate Republicans tend to be the mythical fiscally conservative, well not really, socially liberal crowd. They aren’t going to sign onto a UBI and socialized medicine.
A really functional moderate party in America that would get broad support and dominate politics would be a big spending socially conservative party. Basically what the southern democrats use to claim to be, but really weren’t, and more or less what Trump was. American’s like government spending, for some reason I can’t fathom, and are pretty conservative socially, maybe with a little bit of libertarianism on the social side. That is they want their entitlements they think spending money on national industrial policy and infrastructure is a good idea. They want traditional values taught in school, but are reasonably comfortable with a gay neighbor or coworker. A party that embraced this set of issues would be unstoppable force at least for a little while.
http://financialrepressionauthority.com/2017/07/26/the-roundtable-insight-george-bragues-on-how-the-financial-markets-are-influenced-by-politics/
With a central bank that has so much discretion and is so easy, you can’t expect conservativism to work or sell. The last chance to turn things around was about 1995.
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Wasn’t Biden supposed to be the more moderate choice? If we are going to get Bernie’s policies, why can’t we have Bernie too. At least he actually believes all that nonsense, Biden just repeats what he is told.
Nothing perverse in this. It’s giving us insight into where the Democrats and some Republicans who have and like power are going. It’s what happens in various forms, shapes, speeds with articulated attitudes as power accumulates centrally. At least they’re willing to say it. The good news is that it destroys itself. The bad news is that it destroys civilization in the process
Christine Todd Whitman as Governor of NJ performing an illegal pat-down as a photo op.
I guess this new party will be tough on crime with a smile.
Up against the wall motherf*er
The color contrast is not a good look.
This brings to mind a political argument between Pogo and Albert. “You ever see two dogs fighting over a bone?” “Yeah, so?” “You ever see the bone fight?”
I’d have a lot more respect for Andrew Yang if he’d bring up Friedman’s original “negative income tax” and not misrepresent how it would actually work.
Middle of the road,
Man it stank.
Let’s run over Lionel Ritchie,
With a tank.
– One of Dethtöngue’s lesser-known masterpieces.
He ended up pitching it like he’s Huey Long. The totally stupidest version. No big picture thinking about how it came to this. It just makes everything worse. I really wish he would evaporate.
You are always at the top of your game.
They found a Libertarian that would support the items listed in the post? I guess smoking pot is the only right endowed by our creator.