From “Front and Center”, by Bud Burrell
– The harsh truth of reconciliation of the right and left by well-intended “Centrists”, who allege to seek the best balance of the arguments and positions of both sides is a never-ending movement to a socialist agenda. This should be no surprise to those who have studied historical socialist and communist theology. The fraud they perpetrate is one based on the ends justifying the means, and they view politics as class war by other means.
The United States has married itself to a two party system, chosen over a parliamentarian system of many parties seen in most Western nations. In these systems, government is run by vacillating assemblages of a number of parties who choose to come together to form a voting majority necessary for rule.
The core principals of republican democracy are aligned in this country by positions of opposing parties. One purportedly supports conservative values linked to individual liberties tied to States’ rights constituting a federalist system. The opposing party is linked to the concept of a controlling central government which provides for all of the needs of the people known as a compact theory of union, in exchange for the abrogation certain rights accorded when this country was formed.
This system only works when there is good faith on the parts of each party to preserve and protect the fundamental authority from which all central government authority is derived, the Constitution of the United States. It works only as long as both parties pay obeisance and pledge their loyalty to this highly logical and legal system of rights and obligations of citizens and politicians. [entire post]