The Centre Cannot Hold

From W.B Yeats "The Second Coming":

TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

I reference this in relation to this article out of the New York Times: Effort for Liberal Balance to GOP Groups Begins:

In what may prove a significant development for the 2012 elections, David Brock, a prominent Democratic political operative, says he has amassed $4 million in pledges over the last few weeks and is moving quickly to hire a staff to set up what he hopes will become a permanent liberal counterweight over the airwaves to the Republican-leaning outside groups that spent so heavily on this year’s midterm elections.

I'm frankly, not that happy about this. This is an incredibly partisan time in American politics. Granted, the Right has thus far been able to nearly monopolize the airwaves. But do we need to endure an equally shrill Left version? I think not.

The fact is that having two behemoths on either side of a political seesaw does not equate to a balanced equilibrium at the center. It means that the seesaw snaps. It means that we'll see more and more distortions, more and more politicians enabled to scream at each other and the country in general, with little regard for intelligent discourse or realistic policy. This time though, it'll be "fair and balanced".

That said, I have no problems with money in politics. But at the same time, I'd much rather see it directed away from partisan efforts on either side and towards the center where I believe, most of the country lives their political lives. Efforts like these just lead more people away from conversation and towards partisanship and pointless confrontation.