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In reply to the discussion: Kaptur defeats Kucinich, wins Democratic primary in newly-drawn 9th District [View all]kenfrequed
(7,865 posts)There is no such thing as a moderate. You can state which issues you 'moderate' on only as a relative state between approximate positions. You cannot declare you are a moderate as it has no inherent or even approximate meaning. Just because people say it all the time does not make it a meaningful statement.
Democrats are supposed to have a finer understanding of policy than this and it troubles me that people use such meaningless terms to describe their positions.
Politics is not a study in Nicomachean ethics and there are innumerable issues where there is no proper 'mean' or 'in-between' position. This makes terms like 'moderate' utterly without meaning and completely inadequate. In fact assuming the mantle of 'moderate' actually does more harm to the adherent as no one can really ascertain what their positions are.