Right-Wing Populism

Gordon Fitch gcf at panix.com
Fri Feb 9 19:20:03 PST 2001


Michael Pollak wrote:
> >Is possible in your scheme for there to be centrist populists?

Kelley:
> why on earth should we call something centrist? what on earth could that
> possibly mean? the best shot you give, below, is that they are against the
> two parties. well, that makes them *for* nothing actually so centrism is
> what? nothing?
>
> the use of the word "centrist" is a cop out by people who are ashamed for
> one reason or another to identify with this or that policy.

The idea of a political center, of "centrists", seems totalitarian to me -- the people who have no peculiar interest, party, or ideology but are at the _center_of_things_. The center of what?

It's like the voice from the henhouse: "There ain't anybody here but us chickens."



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