Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for March 08, 2025

…..or a middle-of-the-road activist.

You’re unflappable with both wings?

Go listen to Sen Murphy on youtube, His 6 weeks of corruption are spot on, starting 17 Jan 2025. This shet show of musks is a diversion of the corruption. trump is making millions under the table. AND musk…billions

Where he stands is in line for every kickback he can get, just like 90+% of the rest of congress.

While I’m a middle of the road extremist.

Why is it called a political party when none of it is fun?!!!

Not a bad position to hold. My wife bought me a t-shirt: Knee Jerk Moderate.

huh

Scares me that this makes any sense.

Can someone tell me if it’s extremist to think Men aren’t Women?

Yeah, and as close to the bar as you can get ! !! !

If we still have centrist, they don’t get much air time anymore.

Now that’s the first thing I’ve had in common with the senator…

Canadien eh?

I identify (trying to own the MAGA there with a little humor) as a Radically Independent Moderate.

As an older person, back in the day, I tended toward fiscal conservative and social liberal, and was able to vote D or R based upon the politician or issue. Before gerrymandering, most D’s or R’s would talk more extreme during their primary and then drive to the center during their general election and during their term; if they wanted to win the majority of the voters.

Gerrymandering creates the situation where a politician does NOT need to worry about the center and is always fighting to be even more EXTREME than any of their competitors to win their primary, because the general election is rigged to provide the same result.

Whatever it takes.

A “Rare Bird” these days….

or choose your fighter, it would be funny if it were not so stupid

When a politician says “centrist” they really mean “self-centered.”

Believe it or not, radical centrism is a thing. From Wikipedia:

“Radical centrism, also called the radical center, the radical centre, and the radical middle, is a concept that arose in Western nations in the late 20th century. The radical in the term refers to a willingness on the part of most radical centrists to call for fundamental reform of institutions. The centrism refers to a belief that genuine solutions require realism and pragmatism, not just idealism and emotion.”

I am a conservative radical.

I’ve left it up to the right to do what they want.

LET ME BE CLEAR, i AM UNBURDENED BY WHAT HAS BEEN.

these days any centrist is radical

“I’m a radical centrist.”

So he strongly supports the continued minting of pennies?

Most Americans are moderates.

Are you a radical who wants to shake things up or tear them apart?

Ironically, with all the socio-political polarization these days, centrist might be the most radical position.

In other words he talks from both sides of his mouth.

“Just so there’s no doubt about where I stand…”

“Yeah, we know — you’re standing behind that lectern!”

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He is probably centrist in that if you put one foot in a bucket of boiling water and the other in a bucket of ice, he feels just fine on average or “in the middle.”

I wear a size extra medium

And I’m an Independent Conservative Liberal.

I’m not so sure that’s a joke. There’s not much middle left in politics.

I’m a “Trying very hard to give a dam, but getting very little incentive from any politician”.