Centrist Democrats—Politics’ Deer in the Headlights

Humorist Will Rogers is famous for the comment, “I’m not

a member of any organized political party—I’m a Democrat.”

He made that statement nearly a

hundred years ago and not much has changed since. The party of old white men

still trembles in the presence of changing times (as does its Republican

counterpart).

We may have outgrown our current two-party

system, at least in its obvious shortcomings related to voters. Neither party has

the slightest understanding of what’s going on in America outside the Washington

bubble.

But for the moment our subject is centrist Democrats and we’ll

leave the steaming pile of Republican dirty laundry for another conversation.

Democrats would love to win

in November—oh, would they ever. But they simply can’t wrap

their little minds around how to do that,

no matter how great the opportunity at hand. Voters across the country

keep telling them what to do, that the nation and the times and the history before

us is ready for capitalistic socialism—but they chew and chew and…