The Right was Center before the Left went Right.
You have to either love them or hate them, that’s the reality about political parties. This is not new mind you, its been the same since time immortal. Left wing, right wing, centralist.., conservative, liberal, nationalists… call the parties what you may but it is all the same at the end of the day because its all relative!
Is there really any difference between the two..?
Just look at John Howard, he came in as a Liberal and steered his party to the left until it commanded the center, a position that makes it almost impossible for any other party to have any policy other than a radical policy ie not a populist policy and results in a reduced vote.
Kevin Rudd arrives on the scene and immediately steers the party towards the right and low and behold, he now pretty much commands the center… (see the similarity?)
…which brings me to this glaring conclusion. (more…)