Unbalanced Balance 0
In a fascinating column, David Leonhardt explores his reaction to another writer’s article about “centrist bias.” I commend it to your attention.
Here’s a bit (emphasis added):
In doing so, however, they often make an honest mistake: They equate balance with the midpoint between the two parties’ ideologies. . . .
But that’s not the only problem. There’s also the possibility that both political parties have been wrong about something and that the solution, rather than being roughly halfway between their answers, is different from what either has been proposing.
Methinks Leonhardt is onto something here.
The type of blind loyalty to centrism as he describes it does not admit the possibility that either (or both) polar position(s) may be just wrong, wrong, wrong and limits discourse to the narrow swath of landscape visible through the Overton Window.
