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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://mises.org/Community/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>The Danger of Political Centrism</title><link>http://mises.org/Community/blogs/brainpolice/archive/2008/06/04/the-danger-of-political-centrism.aspx</link><description>It is often assumed that centrists are good because they are not &amp;quot;extreme&amp;quot;. Centrists are generally viewed as being preferable to the so-called &amp;quot;far left&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;far right&amp;quot;. However, it is my contention that centrists are the</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)</generator><item><title>re: The Danger of Political Centrism</title><link>http://mises.org/Community/blogs/brainpolice/archive/2008/06/04/the-danger-of-political-centrism.aspx#70661</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:48:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:70661</guid><dc:creator>Brother Hand</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Our politicians are supposed to enact the will of the people. If Centrism &amp;quot;has no real meaning&amp;quot; then the notion is supported that the will of the people has no real meaning, as concensus is fluid and subjective of the times and trends. Would state-sanctioned Theocracy have &amp;quot;real meaning&amp;quot; for you?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you were to take note that &amp;quot;Centrism&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;concensus&amp;quot; were both flagged by spell-checker as not being real words but Theocracy is not... hmm OK, how about Totalitarianism... nope, no spell-check flag there either!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://mises.org/Community/aggbug.aspx?PostID=70661" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: The Danger of Political Centrism</title><link>http://mises.org/Community/blogs/brainpolice/archive/2008/06/04/the-danger-of-political-centrism.aspx#36654</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:59:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:36654</guid><dc:creator>Brainpolice</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Corkk-2: What precisely do you mean by this statement? That they are oppurtunistic in their strategy? &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Scineram: In my experience, most right-libertarians are minarchists of some sort, although of course there are numerous market anarchists who are right-libertarians as well. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://mises.org/Community/aggbug.aspx?PostID=36654" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: The Danger of Political Centrism</title><link>http://mises.org/Community/blogs/brainpolice/archive/2008/06/04/the-danger-of-political-centrism.aspx#36637</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:10:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:36637</guid><dc:creator>scineram</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Right libertarians are market anarchists.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://mises.org/Community/aggbug.aspx?PostID=36637" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: The Danger of Political Centrism</title><link>http://mises.org/Community/blogs/brainpolice/archive/2008/06/04/the-danger-of-political-centrism.aspx#36626</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:39:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:36626</guid><dc:creator>Corkk-2</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;right-Libertarians are political centrists&lt;/p&gt;
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