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wolfy42 posted...

I'm old, I doubt I'll actually see a moderate progressive run for president with an actual chance to win. I think it's REALLY sad that we never have even one president both sides can get behind. We need someone like that big time, so things that are really important can get done, and neither side will try to block them so they are not a feather in the oppositions cap.

I agree that this is frustrating as hell for the country as-a-whole, but there's a very simple explanation for it. PRIMARIES! (the very concept of them)

Think about it. The USA's traditional two-party primary system is dividing us further and further (and will ultimately kill us if it remains). This is due to the reality that voters absolutely HATE compromise. Therefore, in our own primaries we tend to pick the person that champions our beliefs the most! So, this "Primary" system ends up funneling all of the conservative candidates down to the most extreme bastion of conservative, anti-PC sentiment (e.g. Trump), and then equally funnels all of the liberal candidates down to the most extreme warrior for hyper-PC, social-justice liberalism (e.g. Hillary).

This is precisely why moderates (who actually try to see the common ground, and look at the best of both worlds objectively), can NEVER win elections! They get slaughtered in their own primaries every single time (and why not, because I'M VOTING FOR THE CHAMPION OF MY OWN PERSONAL VALUES! COMPROMISE BE DAMNED!!!)

So, as long as primaries keep funneling people within their respective parties to the most extreme cases, moderates don't stand a chance in hell of winning anything..., ever.

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