Thomas L Friedman – Third Party Rising – NYTimes.com
Posted: October 5, 2010 Filed under: News Leave a commentObama probably did the best he could do, and that’s the point. The best our current two parties can produce today — in the wake of the worst existential crisis in our economy and environment in a century — is suboptimal, even when one party had a huge majority. Suboptimal is O.K. for ordinary times, but these are not ordinary times. We need to stop waiting for Superman and start building a superconsensus to do the superhard stuff we must do now. Pretty good is not even close to good enough today.
We need a third party on the stage of the next presidential debate to look Americans in the eye and say: “These two parties are lying to you. They can’t tell you the truth because they are each trapped in decades of special interests. I am not going to tell you what you want to hear. I am going to tell you what you need to hear if we want to be the world’s leaders, not the new Romans.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/opinion/03friedman.html?_r=1&ref=thomaslfriedman&pagewanted=print
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Matt Miller – A case for ‘radical centrism’ (Washington Post)
Posted: October 1, 2010 Filed under: News Leave a comment… our entire system conspires to ban the expression of a practical synthesis of the best of “liberal,” “conservative” and more eclectic views.
… the deeper vacuum comes not from liberal or conservative ideology per se, but from the interest groups and campaign funders that help each side seek power.
The crisis in the way we think about our collective challenges, in other words, is inseparable from the economic stake many groups have in policies that are obstacles to addressing them.
The challenge is to build a new creed and a new coalition that can move us past the inability of left and right to tackle our real problems.
Toward a Radical Christian Center
Posted: September 23, 2010 Filed under: News Leave a commentKudos to Steve Monsma for taking on the sacred cows of right-wing Christendom to plead for a new radical center:
This leads me to plead for a radical Christian center. Centrism may appear to be wishy-washy and undecided or so apathetic that one refuses to take sides. But a radical Christian center is far from being either. It is radical in that it goes to the root of today’s political issues, asking basic questions of purpose, value, and worth. It puts the common good ahead of partisan advantage and narrow special interests. If you don’t think that is radical, you haven’t been paying much attention to this fall’s partisan election campaigns
The Second Order Of Business
Posted: November 16, 2009 Filed under: Centroids Comments Off on The Second Order Of Business[Originally posted on November 16, 2006]
The following books seem to share a common mindset about the nature of modern business that represents a radical break from conventional thinking. But, what exactly *is* the common thread that ties them all together? I don’t know, but I hope that listing all their key findings here will leading to conceptual unification — what I call “Kepler’s Hedgehog.”
The Purpose of Business: Sustainable Capitalism (2.0)
Posted: October 5, 2009 Filed under: Centroids Comments Off on The Purpose of Business: Sustainable Capitalism (2.0)[Originally posted on October 5, 2005]
Madeleine Albright, on Democracy
Posted: May 8, 2009 Filed under: Governance Reform Comments Off on Madeleine Albright, on DemocracyDee Hock on Noise, Data, Information, Knowledge, Understanding, Wisdom
Posted: March 13, 2009 Filed under: News Comments Off on Dee Hock on Noise, Data, Information, Knowledge, Understanding, WisdomHello WordPress!
Posted: March 16, 2007 Filed under: Website Updates Leave a commentThis marks the move of my “News from the Radical Center” blog to WordPress.com.
How to write an Effective Political Platform
Posted: December 21, 2006 Filed under: News Comments Off on How to write an Effective Political PlatformNew Activity over on Unity Watch
Posted: November 1, 2006 Filed under: Website Updates Comments Off on New Activity over on Unity Watchonline activity to the new Unity Watch blog focused exclusively on Unity ’08.
While not without its challenges, Unity ’08 represents the best chance for
centrists to influence the 2008 election, so the Centroids crew is retargeting our efforts to
communicate with that community. Come on over and check us out!
Radical Centrism 