Interesting

I guess this is why I rarely refer to myself as "moderate" but rather "independent." I am independent because I am fine with taking, at times, radically ideological views. I'm often referred to as moderate because I don't take sides. So in a sense I am non-ideologically centrist, but more in a zig-zag fashion (from left to right, haphazardly) rather than down the center in a straight line.

Liberal where necessary

Dogma is bad.

Which is why I believe that sometimes individualism should be replaced with statism, even though more often than not I am an individualist.

For instance, it is the duty of every civilized society to take care of our weak, our sick, our handi-capped. Neglecting them is only slightly better than the attempts at exterminating them during the fascist years.

So Obama was correct when he said that health care is a right. It is, lest we deem ourselves barbarians.