There Is No Political Centre Ground, Only The Illusion Of It!

"I'm a socialist!"

James Carville, Bill Clinton’s campaign manager during the 1992 U.S. Presidential Election once commented that “Whenever I hear a campaign talk about a need to energise its [grassroots] base, that’s a campaign that is going down the toilet”. Carville is of course right as if any serious political organisation hopes to gain government office, it has to have a broad appeal that goes beyond its hardcore supporters to draw in floating voters. The most popular means among many mainstream politicians to achieve this goal is to attempt to reposition themselves and their political group onto what is believed to be the promised land of the political centre ground. The political centre ground is supposedly a moderate synthesis of right and left ideology that is the least offensive political philosophy to floating voters and even the majority of a party’s core supporters. Unfortunately, this ‘purple patch politics’ does not exist in the real world because it attempts to reconcile two contradictory stances; individual liberty and imposed control and conformity.

A woman cannot be half-pregnant, she is either pregnant or not at all! As such, when any attempts are made to create a synthesis between libertarianism and the hypocritical, mongrel and unprincipled ‘philosophy’ of socialism, these only create more forms of the destructive ideology of socialism. Previous attempts at a ‘middle way’ created fascism, while the Clinton clan’s so-called ‘radical centre’ inherited modest, but improving economic growth from George H. W. Bush in 1993 and left behind a looming, but mild recession for Bush’s son to deal with in 2001 (not to mention Bill Clinton’s own immoral abuse of his position for sexual gratification). Therefore, those who call themselves conservatives, yet pursue so-called ‘centrist’ policies such as the U.S. Senator John McCain and especially his Republican colleague, Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger are in the cold world of reality, not conservatives at all; they are socialists!