E.J. Dionne’s WaPo column today relates about that annoying proposition that Republicans (the right) and Democrats (the left) should meet in the compromising center for better, more workable government.
But Dionne contends:
The truth is that the American right is much farther from anything that can fairly be described as “the center” than is the left.
For example, the center position is not to make Social Security “privatized” (i.e., a fund for retirement, yes, but based on personal investments now) but is actually nearer the position which most Americans support and favor: keep Social Security as a guaranteed government program free of stock-market gambling.
The Republican party has shifted so much to the right that it is no where near the “center right” that many commentators laud as where “real” America resides.
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