Is 21st CMG a right wing or a left wing organization?
We believe that this kind of thinking is now more harmful than useful. Ideologues tend, under stress, to move from sober appraisal to advocacy and dismissive stigmatization, often in the service of ignoring or exaggerating material to suit the world-view of the ideologues. Today’s situation encourages left-wingers to ignore the bad news and right-wingers to welcome it. Defensive left-wingers have refused to listen to anyone with bad news and avidly embrace “narratives” that they think further their progressive goals, even when they backfire. In order to do so, they tend to dismiss anyone who takes the bad news seriously as retrograde neo-cons. Aggressive right wingers have dismissed progressive thinkers as soft-headed tree-huggers, and use the bad news to argue for war and aggression. The result: a conservative movement with limited social imagination that “reality tests” and a progressive movement with an active social imagination that lives in denial. We believe that creative and hum
