. . . and we're taking part.
On the premise that the best antidote to an outbreak of ideologues is an ideablog, Alan Stewart Carl and Joe Weedon have decided to open the doors of the excellent Yellow Line to several centrist co-bloggers, including me.
The others include Jeremy Dibbell of Charging RINO, Dennis Sanders of The Moderate Republican, and Jonathan Cortis of Thoughts of an American Centrist. (Fittingly, since I just wrote about jailbreaking out of your age grade, it's a very cross-generational group. Plus, one of us is a gay African-American Republican Christian minister -- that's what I call a category-buster.)
This is the first alliance or group blog I've taken part in, and I'm excited about it. The point is to make a home for a particular kind of post: those that propose, entertain, point out, mull over, and/or critique new political/social/economic ideas and solutions that break both old molds, the hard left and hard right. If, instead of being flung across the blogosphere and haphazardly linking to each other, some of these ideas are gathered in one place, attracting participation and debate, it may help new centrist thinking to reach critical mass, and at the same time, to be refined and reality-tested.
I'll be doing exactly what I usually do, which is to swoop in and out of politics like a drunken swallow, but when I do write "that kind" of post I'll cross-post it over at The Yellow Line. I feel as if I'm coming to specialize in moral moderation -- the definition of a "moral temperate zone" that is neither draconian nor libertine, where I think people thrive best just as we thrive physically within a certain temperature range. So that kind of thing may be my main contribution. We'll see.
Jonathan Cortis calls it a think tank without the money. Wherever you are on the political spectrum, come read and argue. Ideas are like bread dough: they need to be worked, to be kneaded and to have the hot air punched out of them before they become strong and elastic and more than half-baked.
Thanks, Alan and Joe, for setting this in motion and for inviting AmbivaBlog to take part.
- amba
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