Glenn Greenwald puts some excellent perspective on the John McCain “centrism” fallacy. He writes:
At the very core of the media’s reverence for John McCain is the blatant, tired myth that he’s a “centrist.”
Like Lieberman, McCain may deviate from right-wing dogma on discrete issues when it comes to domestic policy questions. But on questions of foreign policy, national security and war, McCain — and Lieberman — are as extremist as it gets in the mainstream political spectrum. On those obviously central issues, there simply is nobody and nothing to the Right of McCain.
McCain marks the absolute outer ideological boundary of American militarism, imperialism and war-making, particularly (though not only) in the Middle East. That’s why he’s long been enthusiastically supported by the country’s most crazed warmongers — such as Bill Kristol, James Woolsey, most of the PNAC crowd, and Lieberman. In no meaningful sense are such individuals “centrists,” and neither is McCain.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. Honestly, anyone who votes against a ban on torture, or willingly subjects our troops to unnecessary violence in order to prolong a failed war is nothing more than a fundamentalist. A fundamentalist with sub-par singing and songwriting skills.
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