Here’s What Political Division Really Has to Tell You

From the Desk of Don Yocham:

Sidestepping the Unsustainable

The political spectrum has no center.

Democratic participation presents only a grim choice when viewed from the managed perspective of media propaganda. Choose either a culture of victimhood on the left or throw in your lot with bigoted oppressors on the right.

Meanwhile, the once hotly contested middle ground has seemingly flash-boiled away like a shot of Bourbon in a hot skillet.

But for those of us looking past the propaganda, the extreme political division has laid bare the core political operating principle: use every "crisis" as an opportunity to sacrifice self-determination on the altar of centralized political authority.

The resulting demands for total compliance to deal with whatever crisis presents itself have driven us to cling more tightly to the right to choose for ourselves. Rather than accept the divisive label of victim or bigot, self-empowered individuals have moved off the one-dimensional, left-right paradigm into a second dimension.

One defined not by victims and bigots but by top-down, authoritarian centralized power on one end and bottom-up, power-from-the-people decentralized authority on the other.

So, the middle didn't evaporate. It simply stepped aside.

And reminds where the Heart of America truly lies.