There is often a conception that the self described moderates are somehow more objective than those who espouse ideas on the right.  The left, and many on the right, often only get their input from their side, but self described moderates get their news ostensibly from the left.

Oh blessed moderates.  They are so well versed and so enlightened, that we should all bask in their glory. Right?  I have to clarify, there are relative moderates, and objective conservatives, who can see when both sides have arguments with merit. The more objective avoid guilt by association, conspiracy theory and can see some some validity  on both sides.  The self described moderates,

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There have been several times when Utah Senate candidate Mike Lee could have taken the high road and run a campaign on substance and issues.  No such luck.  His campaign could more easily be described as an exercises in guilt by association, demonizing his opponent and generally showing very little class.

Immanuel Kant, (18th Century German Ethicist) once wrote, “If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.”

I’ve often told my friends and family that those institutions that would seek to diminish class distinctions in society, create a society with no class.  This is what has happened in countless people in the country, but it is most prominent in political races. 

Case in point is the way that Mike Lee

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