About
Founded A.D. 2007 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Founder, Editor & Chief Author: Rick Bayan.
I’ve created The New Moderate as a community for centrist thinkers who are fed up with extremist dogma… fed up with feeling excluded from the national debates on politics, culture and religion… fed up with being fed up! In other words, I’ve created The New Moderate as a community for people like us.
Moderate, not timid.
We moderates have an image problem. We get no respect from the right or the left. For too long, we’ve been dismissed as gutless, dithering intellectual herbivores who lack the courage to take a stand.
Our answer: we stand in the middle, we stand tall, and we’re immoderate in our passion for moderation. The New Moderate will prove that our ideas are fresher, bolder, more sound and more just than the attention-getting ideologies of right and left.
Why call it The NEW Moderate?
We moderates have traditionally been a reticent bunch, too mild-mannered and apathetic to jump into the political fray. Our nuanced ideas haven’t attracted zealots, for better or worse. That’s why we have no magazines to call our own. That’s why today’s moderate blogs tend to languish in obscurity. The result: leftists and conservatives push their agendas across at our expense… and at the expense of society as a whole.
We aim to change all that. Our goal is nothing less than to create a dynamic new moderate movement, energized with forcefully expressed ideas, passion and commitment. With your participation, The New Moderate will become a vibrant community that can make its voice heard above the din of dueling left-wingers and right-wingers.
Read the whole story here.
Hi Rick! I have an award for your blog. It’s at http://beatniksbeatonlife.blogspot.com/2009/08/im-lovely-blogger.html
Thank you, my friend. I have to head out the door for my vacation, but I’ll definitely look it up when I return. I’ll finally check out your blog while I’m at it, too!
I checked out the site, and like it. I’m sure we won’t agree on all, but can’t see much we’d disagree on, I think. As I’m what I’d call a militant moderate, I’d say I fit into your category. I’ll add you to my blogroll. Good stuff.
For political parties (read other parts of your blog) you may want to look at MPRI (Moderate Party of Rhode Island)– for those in RI. I’ve followed their jumping through hurdles to get party status in that state.
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LOUDelf: Thanks for the friendly gesture; we need more “militant moderates” like you. I’ll give you a reciprocal link, and I’ll look into that R.I. moderate party for inspiration. There’s already a national Centrist Party with its own website (uscentrist.org), but you’d never know it.
Rick,
I’m so glad to have found your “New Moderate” blog. Over the last several weeks, I’ve thought about the idea of “energized moderates”–that is, folks that recognize the value of solving problems and getting things done for the greater good. Please count me in. As some of my ideas crystallize, I would like to share them with you and anyone else who’s interested in restoring a sense of balance, civility, and practicality to our political system.
dj
Glad to have you on our side, Dave. America’s moderates need all the energy they can get, and I think we can energize them. “Balance” is probably the most critical word in the moderate lexicon; it’s not that we take the middle position on every issue… it’s that we want to restore balance when we feel the boat tipping to one side or the other.
I hope you’ll be a regular visitor, and I look forward to reading your comments.