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Originally posted by Phasad1913
It is socially unhealthy, and in my opinion, contradictory to a democratically-based society to have such a large mass of citizens who feel completely ignored and/or disenfranchised in terms of their views or approaches to solving the problems of the country which is what you get when you have someone in office who only relates to or represents citizens whose political views lie more on the fringe of the spectrum than toward the more logical, rational, or reasonable middle.
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I disagree with labeling the middle as more logical, rational, and reasonable. They may be more tolerant, but I think that true liberals and conservatives view themselves as quite logical, rational, and reasonable.