PassionateCentrist

When I read Matt Miller's book, The Two Percent Solution, I was inspired. Here finally was a book that offered specific solutions to problems that have been systematically ignored by the two political parties for the last 30 years.

I met Mr. Miller last February and offered my support to help take his book from a group of ideas to a political movement. Unlike works by many policy wonks, The Two Percent Solution offered political strategy on how to market the plan to voters. He even included polling data. I was ready for the ideas to be put into action.

But Mr. Miller brushed off my offer. He said to get involved in the message boards on his web site. To get involved in his Yahoo group. Sadly Mr. Miller was not engaged in either group. There was no movement beyond creating discussion from Mr. Miller.

Similarly, another book "The Radical Center" offers a great vision for where America is headed next in addressing these issues and how they will transform politics. But there's no follow through from the authors on how to make it happen. There's no leadership from either author to create a grassroots political movement.

And maybe that's fine. After all, they are authors and want to create ideas.

Well this blog is hopefully the start of creating the political movement both books forsee happening.

I'll lay out my theory of what issues we should focus on and what our strategy should be to form a group to get a political movement started. That's the point of this blog. This is where it all begins