We Need To Punch Back Against The

Right Now, Politics Follows The Rules Of Talk Radio - Using Conflict, Tension, Fear, And Resentment To Find New Recruits.

I'm An Independent. I'm A Centrist. A New Generation Is Arriving That Has Grown Up With A Multiplicity Of Choice In Every Aspect Of Their Lives, And Yet Politics Is The Last Place That They Are Told That They Should Be Satisfied With A Choice Between Brand A And Brand B. It Doesn't Fit The Way They Think. It Doesn't Fit The Way They Live.

The American People Are Smart. They've Gotten Sick Of The Predictable Hyperpartisan Talking Points And Canned Anger.

I Believe That The Far-right And The Far-left Can Be Equally Insane - But There's No Question That In The First Years Of The Obama Administration, The Far-right Has Been Far Crazier. In Part, This Comes From Parties Being Out Of Power - Without The Responsibility Of Governing To Ground Them, The Activists And The Ideologues Take Over.

A Wingnut Is Someone On The Far-right Wing Or Far-left Wing Of The Political Spectrum - The Professional Partisans, The Unhinged Activists And The Paranoid Conspiracy Theorists. They're The People Who Always Try To Divide Rather Than Unite Us.