Reply #47: I don't think I'm right in the middle, I think I'm in the left of center

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I consider people like John Breaux, or Lincoln Chafee, or Jesse Ventura, to be real centrists. I'm just not confinded to party mindedness. I see that polarization just leads to so much PROGRESS not getting done. I can go issue by issue with you if you want. I'm solidly on the left on issues like gun control, seperation of church and state, I think that the estate tax should not only be protected at what it was at the beginning of the Clinton administration it should be increased beyond that.

I pretty consistently agree with the Sierra Club and League of conservation voters.

But alot of the anti-moderate people seem to be obsessed with a regurgition of propaganda dealing mostly with foreign policy, that would barely fit the views of even the most left of left elected democrats in this country, including being more out there than the most partisan members of the progressive caucus. I blame the counterpunches and whatreallyhappened.com's of the net and some of the more motivated Stalinist-type organizations such as internationalanswer for this radicalization/stupification of much of the left.