Robert Reich: Why 2020 Won't Be Won By Centrists

[Hortensis]

75. Not just wrong, but extremely.

Wishful-thinking prognostications: if wishes were horses.

As soon as you see someone claim mainstream Democrats are centrists, which is wildly wrong, you know that somebody’s either misunderstanding, or far more likely in his case deliberately misrepresenting, and often both.

However, mainstream liberals are very big on finding ways to work with people of different viewpoints because that’s how representative government of, by, and for the people HAS to work.

That is not the same as a “centrist” ideology blurring differences. And examination of liberal ideology these days, voter and legislative records, shows that there are very few people who could be called centrists.

That’s actually one of our nations significant problems. But liberals can’t go meet conservatives of these days on a lot of issues, they’ve become too extremist.