Moderate Blogs
Paul Silver, over at The Moderate Voice, points out that moderate voices are not more prevalent, and what the term ‘moderate’ really means:
Few of the central controversies in our society can be resolved by simple extreme answers: they do not reduce to: power versus finesse, carrot versus stick, civil liberties versus security, and it certainly isn’t liberal versus conservative. It is almost always a balance and blend.
Moderate voices aren’t present enough. People search for easy answers in extremism, ideologies, or one-sided discourse that only reaffirms poorly formed policies. The left and the right are both susceptible to offering what seem like easy answers, but they are not. The only way toward truly successful solutions is through a moderate dialog between ideas coming from both the left and the right.
As a moderate myself, I often find myself torn between left and right wing ideologies that rarely address the issues in a convincing and meaningful way. In the flash and buzz of cable TV news spin machines, sound bytes on talk radio, and left and right wing shock columns in national newspapers across the country America is losing its ability to generate meaningful and well-reasoned political discourse. Moderate voices don’t get TV ratings and don’t raise the passions of Americans in the way that more ideologically biased voices tend to do. Fortunately, for those looking for a more balanced discourse the Moderate Voice is a great starting point for getting in touch with blogs across the entire political spectrum—left, right and the middle.
Over the next few weeks I will be selecting several blogs across the political spectrum to feature in the link section of this page. The links will be divided accordingly so their ideological bias is known upfront and readers can decide for themselves what ideology to look at and find a diverse array of political opinions to satisfy their intellectual curiosity.
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