# I am a proud middle of the roader and damn proud of it

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-proud-middle-of-the-roader-and-damn-proud-of-it/843316>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 12, 2019, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-proud-middle-of-the-roader-and-damn-proud-of-it/843316 "2019-11-12T04:44:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-proud-middle-of-the-roader-and-damn-proud-of-it/843316/161 "2019-11-18T16:27:49Z")

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> [@Kimstu](#):
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> Sanders, from a lower-middle-class Eastern European immigrant family, famously worked at a variety of jobs including carpenter in his twenties and thirties. You think carpenters don’t do any manual labor?

Of course they don’t. Not \*socialist \*carpenters anyway. They just shout marxist dialectic at the woodpile until it agrees to become a table in voluntary betterment of the community. Under True & Total Communism, the means of production aren’t \*needed \*anymore, my dude.

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**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-proud-middle-of-the-roader-and-damn-proud-of-it/843316/162 "2019-11-18T17:13:37Z")

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You “struggle” with the wood until it agrees to become a table.

And when we finally arrive, we can tell the revolutionary cadres to fuck the hell off!

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**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-proud-middle-of-the-roader-and-damn-proud-of-it/843316/163 "2019-11-18T21:01:33Z")

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> [@elucidator](#):
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> Radicals hack out the trail and clear the campsite.

Sometimes they just lead everyone over a cliff.

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> Progressives build the cabins and start the campfires.

Or they burn down the woods, but hey at least everybody’s warm.

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> Liberals show up after the hot showers have been installed.

“Liberal” is a dirty word on the left too I suppose

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**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-proud-middle-of-the-roader-and-damn-proud-of-it/843316/164 "2019-11-18T22:54:50Z")

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I am a recovering centrist who finally woke up and became a left-wing nut job.

Others call it a mid-life crisis. I pay them no mind.

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