The Center-Right Myth (Hal Cohen)

  Nov. 22, 2008 (World News Trust) -- Many people in the punditocracy are cautioning President-elect Obama not to pursue a liberal agenda aggressively because the people will turn on him. They say that despite the largest margin of victory in twenty years tilting left, we are still a “center-right” nation. Ladies and gentlemen, nothing could be further from the truth!

  Those who promote the “center-right” nonsense also make the absurd claim that President Bush has been governing from this “center-right” position. Somehow, the two-thirds of the country that want universal health care, and out of Iraq, are out of the mainstream, and even though the wrong-track numbers are as high as the Dow is low, we don’t want to make a major change in direction. This is patently absurd.

  Those who would have you buy into the notion of “center-right” America are the exact same ones who would have you believe that we have always been a Christian nation. This, despite the fact that one of the oldest international treaties this nation entered into says quite specifically that we are NOT a Christian nation. The treaty was with Libya, and dates back to our 2nd President (It is left to the reader to look this up but it is easily googled).

  Let me state for the record that a “center-right” America would never have elected Senator Obama to the Presidency for the simple fact that Barack Hussein Obama would not have been a Senator to run in the first place. The people who use the term “center-right” today have been gutting the EPA and fighting the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act signed into law by the great leftist pinko Richard Milhouse Nixon!

  Center-Rightists still hate Medicare and Medicaid. A “center-right” America would never have supported the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s uppity movement which led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. Brown vs. Board of Ed would never have been brought to court in the first place let alone Brown winning in the Supreme Court.

  Women’s suffrage, the end of slavery, equal protection, union’s, and anti-trust laws would not exist in a “center-right” America. Why would “Original Constructionists” need to amend The Constitution? At this point, it occurs to me that we would have had a more peaceful past as a “center-right” nation. There would have been no Civil War because we all know that Center-Righter’s are all for States Rights (except when the state in question takes a center-left position).

  Likewise, there would never have been a War of 1812. On what do I base this claim, you ask? Well, and I mean no offense to the current residents of the parent company, a “center-right” America would still be England.

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  Hal Cohen is a writer living in Manhattan. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..