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Jon Stewart strains to make his March of the Moderates include targets on the left and right

'When a Democrat 'moves to the center,' he is adopting a conservative position - or the language of a conservative position. Even if only the language is adopted and not the policy, there is an important effect.' George Lakoff, Common Dreams

Watching our system deal with the debt ceiling crisis - a wholly self-inflicted crisis, which may nonetheless have disastrous consequences - it's increasingly obvious that what we're looking at is the destructive influence of a cult that has really poisoned our political system. And no, I don't mean the fanaticism of the right. Well, OK, that too. But my feeling about those people is that they are what they are; you might as well denounce wolves for being carnivores. Crazy is what they do and what they are. No, the cult that I see as reflecting a true moral failure is the cult of balance, of centrism.