So why is the idea of the center so seductive, when the actuality of the center is so negligible? Well, it's simple: There is status in the center. There is the opportunity to look down at people of both political extremes, while having one's own smarts — one's own reasonability, which has become the calling card of the new center — affirmed.
I love it when a really good writer sums up a feeling I've been having trouble articulating.
Why do so many people subscribe to the 'both sides do it' false equivalency trap? Because it makes them the savvy ones, of course! And cretins like Friedman & that moral cripple David Brooks make hay off it.
Thank you, Charles Pierce!
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