What Is An Extreme Moderate

I instinctively knew you were, what I refer to as a intellectual moron. Paralyzed by not being able to make proper distinctions...and making distinctions where there aren't any....Most intellectuals can understand both sides of an issue but we aren't so proud of that fact that we can't take the next step figure out which one is more healthy. Let me send you an article listing the great moderates in world history....oops I can't because there aren't any. Please reconsider your flirtation with intellectual masturb$t#on, and find something worth fighting for.

Who do you think you are impressing?

Gratz on the new title, Intellectual Moron. Wear it with pride.

The founders worked very hard to ensure that Extreme Moderatism is what we get from our govt.

The same party having majorities in both houses while having the presidency always makes me nervous. Even when they are on my side. What we have just come out of is evidence enough.

Now that the Monopoly game is over the lower class will get more comfortable and think they have a shot at moving up. Then we start the new game and see who can get all the money this time. Happens every eighty years.

Hope I win this time. :)

Jose

Actually, you will find the opposite of extreme moderate, that is compulsive reductionism is more simple and basic. It also involves all or nothing, black-white thinking which results in eliminating information and complexity when making decisions.

I'm for a flexible approach to politics that works toward the common good, beginning with national security--the sine qua non.

I wholeheartedly agree on the flexibility part. Ideology is often the obstacle though.

Seriously, You reduce the whole of the Founding Father's work to "If you believe that
a certain class of people should have control over the government, then you agree with the founding fathers." and then lecture others on reductionism?

The Founders believed no such thing. Read Federalist #10. They were trying to create a system that allowed no one class to gain power or keep it for long. To do so they created a contract, and contracts if they are to mean anything, are of their nature, inflexable, and modified only under certain circumstances. I am sorry if you think that is "ideological" or reductionist., but its also called "the Rule of Law" - if you are arguing against it, then you are arguing for the "Arbitrary and Flexible" rule of men.

Extreme Moderation in your defintion seems to mean refusing to take a principled stand on any issue for fear of being seen as extreme. A Man who stands for nothing, will fall for anything.

Then you should read the debates that preceded the Constitution because that is when Pinckney and Madison said that control should be held by one class of people. In fact, the rest of the Constitution bears witness to that by its silence and the practices that occurred afterwards.

In fact, the Constitution started as a racist document.

So the Constitution has its positives and enough negatives that should prohibit people from putting it on a pedestal