The Inviable Core Beliefs of Moderates

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I like to pee in the aisle.

And when circumstances warrant, maybe even publicly defecate in it.

I don't pee in the aisle, but I like to sit there in case I do have to pee. Sure beats walking past all those Republicans sitting on their lame, lazy a$$es.

You sit when you pee? Stand like a man!

[scandal 951]

I like to pee in the aisle.

And when circumstances warrant, maybe even publicly defecate in it.

I don't pee in the aisle, but I like to sit there in case I do have to pee. Sure beats walking past all those Republicans sitting on their lame, lazy a$$es.

You sit when you pee? Stand like a man!

Just don't pee in Bill's bed

[Niels Bohr 72]

Are you serious?

Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are followed moderate philosophy. Let me find those books in classical studies, and philosophy classes from college. Ridiculous how people change things. If those books are just no good, then I'd take a professor in classical studies from Harvard anyday to prove otherwise.

Edited May 26, 2009 by Niels Bohr

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I like to pee in the aisle.

And when circumstances warrant, maybe even publicly defecate in it.

I don't pee in the aisle, but I like to sit there in case I do have to pee. Sure beats walking past all those Republicans sitting on their lame, lazy a$$es.

You sit when you pee? Stand like a man!

Just don't pee in Bill's bed

That just goes without saying, unless we have the plastic sheets on the bed, and the Crisco handy.

[alienlovechild 75]

Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are followed moderate philosophy. Let me find those books in classical studies, and philosophy classes from college. Ridiculous how people change things.

Moderation in their teaching didn't always work that way in practice. Some historians blame those who were struck on Aristotle for the stagnation of the sciences during the Middle Ages. Same goes for Confucious in China. Better to build on great thoughts than blindly read them without advancing further. That's how civilization moves forward.

[msu17 0]

To me, being a moderate is anyone who isn't a crazy with extremist views on the left or the right. I think most people fall somewhere in the middle, therefore most people are moderates. I highly doubt that this is a bimodal distribution where everyone is either super liberal or super conservative. And probably moderates don't get as much done. Squeaky wheel gets the grease. IF the world isn't going to come to an end if your agenda isn't pushed, you probably aren't going to b***ch and moan as much

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Do they have any core beliefs other than to stay away from the edges?

[alienlovechild 75]

Do they have any core beliefs other than to stay away from the edges?

Most apolitical people are moderates who leave the thinking and doing in government to others. In some ways you don't want a hyper political society where every issue is a life and death struggle. Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia indoctrinated the public but I'd pass on living under either government.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Do they have any core beliefs other than to stay away from the edges?

Most people are not very political. Somehow, becoming political forces you to choose sides. Western dialectic is by nature adversarial. It is ingrained into our legal system, and into our politics. The popularity of Team sports in America and Western Culture is another example. Unlike some cultures, we have not learned how to argue from the center yet.

So, to be moderate is to avoid conflict. Very little seems to get done without confrontation, however, at least in America, much to the chagrin of those those that seek to avoid it. (Hippies, and mothers of the world)

[spookyturtle 9,466]

I like to pee in the aisle.

And when circumstances warrant, maybe even publicly defecate in it.

I don't pee in the aisle, but I like to sit there in case I do have to pee. Sure beats walking past all those Republicans sitting on their lame, lazy a$$es.

You sit when you pee? Stand like a man!

I meant that I sit near the aisle so I can get up to go to the mens room to pee. Instead of having to squeeze by all the lazy Republicans sitting on their lard a$$es; they'd probably pinch my a$$ on the way by.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Not bad, you two. Yes, political moderates are nonchalants. However, most here who id themselves as political moderates are hardly nonchalant, so, surprise, they are not moderates. They are partisans in denial.

Thank you!

[Danno 1,228]

Not bad, you two. Yes, political moderates are nonchalants. However, most here who id themselves as political moderates are hardly nonchalant, so, surprise, they are not moderates. They are partisans in denial.

Thank you!

Absolutely true!

BUt wait... could some of our in-house, self professing Moderates tell us what you Stand for?

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Not bad, you two. Yes, political moderates are nonchalants. However, most here who id themselves as political moderates are hardly nonchalant, so, surprise, they are not moderates. They are partisans in denial.

Thank you!

Absolutely true!

BUt wait... could some of our in-house, self professing Moderates tell us what you Stand for?

They can make it up.

[Heracles 417]

MODERATES AT WORK

more like morons

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

So if I read this thread correctly - there is no such thing as a "moderate", just varying degrees of extremism justifying the extremism of others.

Brilliant.