Category Archives: Compulsive Centrist Disorder

How the Compulsive Centrists Enable the Very Partisanship They Bemoan

Posted on January 25, 2013 by

Reed Richardson, in a superb post, writes the following (boldface mine): Judging by the rest of the article and his [Fournier's] curt, somewhat dismissive one-word Tweet, though, I suspect it’s difficult for him to answer because he, like many other … Continue reading →

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Dear Centrists, It’s T.I.N.A. Time

Posted on June 25, 2012 by

That is, There Is No Alternative. Comrade Driftglass asks Sullivan and the Centrists (boldface mine): However, now that you have finally, grudgingly arrived at the same conclusion that Liberals came to decades ago — that our problems are not primarily … Continue reading →

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Brad DeLong Asks Exactly the Right Question of Very Respectable Centrists

Posted on May 30, 2012 by

Brad DeLong fascinates me: on policy issues, he is very centrist (at least in a sane political system), but unlike most centrists (or perhaps ‘pseudo-centrists’), he is able to fully grasp how batshitloonitarians and theocrats have completely overrun the Republican … Continue reading →

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“The bitter truth of our current situation is actually very simple”: Complusive Centrist Disorder Is Alive and Well

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

Ordinary, I would put something like this in the links roundup, but what Driftglass writes about the continuing obsession with Compulsive Centrist Disorder is top-notch. Take it away, comrade: The bitter truth of our current situation is actually very simple: … Continue reading →

Posted in Compulsive Centrist Disorder, Conservatives, Democrats | 4 Comments

He-Said, She-Said Education Reporting: Just What Our Children Need

Posted on April 18, 2011 by

To consider educational ‘reformers’ as one side of an honest debate is to be party to intellectual fraud. You are granting them a legitimacy they have not earned, just as writing a story describing an intellectual ‘debate’ between biologists and creationists grants creationists unwarranted legitimacy.
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Posted in Compulsive Centrist Disorder, Education

Beware Compulsive Centrists and ISlate-esque Contrarians Bearing False Equivalencies

Posted on January 10, 2011 by

Civility troll alert.
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Posted in Compulsive Centrist Disorder, Compulsive Contrarian Disorder, Conservatives | 4 Comments

I Thought Technocratic ‘Centrists’ Were Supposed to Be Competent: The Mayor Bloomberg Edition

Posted on December 31, 2010 by

But Magickal Centrists are supposed to be so competent!
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Posted in Compulsive Centrist Disorder, Conservatives | 5 Comments

Obama Is a Centrist Ideologue

Posted on December 5, 2010 by

If he acts like a Reagan conservative….
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Posted in Compulsive Centrist Disorder, Conservatives, Democrats | 3 Comments

Lessons from How Rome Fell

Posted on November 23, 2010 by

“Many of these could enjoy highly successful careers by the standards of the day without ever being effective in the role that they were theoretically supposed to perform.”
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Posted in Democrats, Conservatives, We're Really Fucked, Compulsive Centrist Disorder | 7 Comments

A Question for Gergen and Hart: Is Opposing Creationism ‘Elitist’?

Posted on November 17, 2010 by

Because that’s what it seems they’re claiming.
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Posted in Compulsive Centrist Disorder, Conservatives, Creationism | 6 Comments