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This is also a good example of what happens when you continually try to compromise and please the left. They will keep moving further and further left and taking more and more. There is no stopping point. They derive power through actvisim. If you give in, they will just find more to be active about. They won't stop.

I don't think the "middle way" was ever as big as some seem to think. I think a lot of that was the main stream media making a really big deal about undecided voters. Where I might argue away from that is national politics in the US has moved to the left overall in the last 50 years. What used to be the "middle way" 50 years ago is hard core right wing conservative now. Normal flyover country people in the US didn't shift right, the left just went further and further left.