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The Death of Pragmatism

January 27, 2012 - 12:00 am - by Rick Moran
Nightelf
2012-01-27 08:59:08

Describing the Tea Party as ‘extreme’ is bogus. To want to cut taxes and shrink the size of government to a reasonable size are mainstream, middle-of-the-road goals. The notion that you can take a reasonable demand (shrink our bloated government) and compare it with the radical demands of the OWS movement or Obama’s utopia of total state control and then draw a midpoint between them and call it moderation, is absurd. Some people on the right may indeed espouse extremism, but the fairly modest demands of the Tea Party aren’t them.