Monday, December 26, 2011

What! Me Cower?

No way, Newsweek. I'm not Mad In The Middle for no reason, and you can read "mad" as either "angry" or "insane." It works the same either way. So, bite me, Newsweek.

America's Soft Middle: 'Centrists' Cower in Time of Partisanship - The Daily Beast

The world’s oldest democracy enters this election year in one of the foulest moods on record. Three quarters of Americans tell pollsters the country is going down the tubes. In roughly equal number, they hate the Republicans and the Tea Party, the Democrats and the Occupy [What Have You] movement, Congress, and anyone else in politics. “Get Angry!” the French nonagenarian writer Stephane Hessel urged in his smash-global0hit pamphlet (more than 3 million copies sold). Americans are seemingly as PO’d as any Greek or Spaniard, withouth the proximate cause of epic economic collapse...

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