"The Moderate Middle Is A Myth"

[JohnnyRingo]

1. No, it isn't

Moderate mass in the middle represents the gravitational pull that returns the political pendulum when it swings too far to the left or the right. Like the pendulum on a clock, it wants to find a center but always swings beyond with help from one side or the other.

Looking at the past, we saw the swing right with Reagan. The pendulum came back and put the Clintons in the WH. While that wasn't such a mad swing, the middle mass once again pulled it back to the center but continued momentum to the Bush era, a considerably farther swing. With the political pendulum so far to the right it swung back hard to the left and put a black (relatively) liberal in office.

I don't think I have to go into what happened next, but when it comes back this fall it could be with such force that it allows for a far left contender. After that, the clock will just chime thirteen and fall of the wall.