Comments on: About The New Moderate

By: Rick Bayan

Rick Bayan — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 03:11:56 +0000

Ah, a moderate and a cynic! Sometimes I think the one leads to the other. Glad you’ve found us here, Mark!

By: Mark Kovachi

Mark Kovachi — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 04:30:51 +0000

Hi Rick – I’m glad I found you here at The New Moderate. I first found you couple weeks ago at your old blog site The Cynic’s Sanctuary, which I did find there Keep it up!

Regards, Mark K

By: Joe Knucklehead

Joe Knucklehead — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 05:15:17 +0000

Hi Rick,

I’ve enjoyed reading your blog. I used to be pretty apolitical, but like you and many of your readers, I’ve gotten fed up with the influence of special interests and ideological extremists on the American political system. I’ve started to put a few ideas together in a podcast; I think the regular readers of this blog may have an interest in this. If so, please have a look at http://www.americanknucklehead.com/.

Regards,

Joe Knucklehead

By: Rick Bayan

Rick Bayan — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:58:17 +0000

My pleasure, David. You have the right idea: we need to stop the polarization and remind Americans that we’re all the same nationality. (I honestly believe that most extremists give their primary loyalty to whatever faction they belong to.) Sometimes we have to confront the extremists, but I’m with you when it comes to bridging the great divide with commonsense solutions.

By: David Ferguson

David Ferguson — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:50:10 +0000

Be passionate, not polarizing. Listen more, speak less, and attempt to learn from those you appose. Argue based on thoughtfulness and intellect not dogma. Be willing to step away from the angry mobs on either end of our political spectrum and become a voice of reason. As Americans, there is more that connects us than separates us. Lets figure out how to return the country to the moderate majority rather than the militant minority.

Thanks for giving us zealous moderates a voice.

By: Rick Bayan

Rick Bayan — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:01:50 +0000

sicklygreyfoot: Enjoyed your remarks, which also happened to be the 1,000th comment posted here at The New Moderate. (I should offer you some sort of prize, but I’m afraid my writing will have to do.)

Yes, we moderates have our work cut out for us. We don’t get any respect from the ideologues on either side of the fence, and the truth is that too many moderate politicians and columnists are in fact “snores.” I’m hoping we can generate some excitement here without resorting to the distortions and acrimony typically generated by our friends on the left and right.

By: sicklygreyfoot

sicklygreyfoot — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:14:33 +0000

Well, thank goodness.

Mr. Bayan, your blog is a breath of fresh air! The modern political arena is infested with ideologues. So precious few of them are interested in a productive discourse. They only want to hear themselves. Telling people that conservatism and liberalism aren’t fundamentally opposed garners at least one of three reactions: derision, suspicion, or just plain boredom. We moderates aren’t dramatic enough, are we? If we aren’t saying that “right wing racist capitalist pigs are hoarding the world’s wealth” or that “the left wing intellectual elite is destroying American values,” well then we’re just SNORES!

I’ll remain dutifully apprised of your writings. My appreciation for you endeavor is boundless.

Thank you. Thank you VERY much.

Yours,

Reuben Smith (aka sicklygreyfoot)

By: Rick Bayan

Rick Bayan — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:55:03 +0000

Thanks, Luke. I like to think I have a “loud” voice, though I’m having trouble reaching the opinion makers in the big media. Still, we have lively discussions here, as you’ll see.

BTW, you’re probably right that the extremists don’t think of themselves as extremists; the lefties think the rest of us are reactionaries, and of course the right-wingers think we’re socialists.

By: Luke Pickett

Luke Pickett — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 02:51:07 +0000

Your place is here and now. I encourage you to step up and speak out against the extremes – because the extremes of either side do not realize they are extremes.

We need your moderating voice – louder.

Best Regards,

Luke Pickett
Stratham, NH

By: Rick Bayan

Rick Bayan — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:21:13 +0000

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.