"The centrist is none other than the social rationalist. The centrist is what we have called a moralist, a moralist of the cheap rhetorical kind, who misuses big words, such as freedom, justice, rights of man or others, to the point of empty phraseology, who poses as a paragon of virtues and stoops to use his moralism as a political weapon and to represent his more reserved adversary as morally inferior."
A moralist "stakes his moral claims so high and makes demands on human nature without considering either the concrete conditions or the possible consequences of the fulfillment of those demands. The 'left' moralist all too often reaches the point where his big words of love and freedom and justice serve as a cover for the exact opposite." A moralist is the "advocate of abstract social justice an ambitious place-hunter." - Wilhelm Rople in 1960
It is now 2009 and which leaders fit the centrist/moralist mold today?
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