why centrists suck

david sirota writes about why centrists are awful. the term “centrist” has been co-opted by radical right-wingers in washington, d.c., and now anyone who does not support their powerful wealthy corporate interests and who is not in bed with the corrupt lobbyists is labelled “out of the mainstream”. to be a centrist you have to be a corrupt lobbyist crony who takes bribes and has no morals, basically. and senator joseph lieberman of connecticut is the biggest centrist of them all, which is why we should all support ned lamont in his campaign for senate. joseph lieberman should just come out and say it already: he is a republican. why does the democratic party have these wolves in sheep’s clothing like senator lieberman? at least with the republicans, you know they are evil; they come out and say what their evil agenda is. they say that they want to outlaw homosexuality and outlaw abortion and nuke iran and make christianity the official religion that is mandatory for everyone and forcibly remove over 11 million illegal immigrants and enact tax policies that benefit the wealthy and big business and dismantle what is left of the welfare state and let huge corporations outsource as many jobs as they want out of this country. we know that they want to destroy everything that is good about the united states of america and turn this into a third-world militaristic totalitarian hellhole. but what is the deal with people like lieberman? why do they have to not only be traitors to our country like the republicans all are, but also traitors to their own party, the democrats? senator lieberman always sides with president bush and against his fellow democrats. so now half of the democrats think it is perfectly fine to have general michael hayden be cia director, after presiding over a giant program to spy on all of our phone calls. this is absolutely treasonous! this goes against everything in our bill of rights and all of our constitutional liberties! when are these “centrists” going to wake up and realize they have destroyed what made this country great? and when are the american people going to wake up and stop supporting these thugs? while people in iran may chant “death to america”, the neocons are already busily at work carrying out this deed, committing national suicide and destroying this great nation. let us work together to save this nation from the misguided, corrupt fools who are currently in charge of it who are destroying everything. it will take quite some time to undo the damage they have caused, not only at home, but around the world.