Party Pooper

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Joe Lieberman has been in politics for most of his adult life. First as a Connecticut State Senator, then as the state's Attorney General, and finally, as a U.S. Senator for 24 years. A self-proclaimed "centrist," over the course of his career, he saw the middle of the political spectrum transformed from a place everyone was trying to meet into a place no one would be seen dead. But for Lieberman, the ability to eschew party dogma was a source of power, a journey he documents in his 2021 book, The Centrist Solution: How We Made Government Work, And How We Could Make It Work Again. He joins Mike for an extended interview on today's show. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because
0:05.4	I'm a bit of a homebody and I love a 5th but I think it's just the holiday period.
0:09.9	It's just for me it's the most romantic period and I think anyone who's listened to my
0:15.5	records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance.
0:18.8	Enjoy in every sip with Red Cups now Back at Starbucks.
0:30.2	It's Thursday December 1st, 2022 from Peach Fish Productions.
0:33.8	It's the Gisdy Mike Pesca on the show today in our polarized country.
0:38.4	It's hard to agree on almost anything except maybe this one fact that centrism sucks.
0:44.7	I don't think it sucks.
0:48.8	I think there is a robust centrism and a default centrism.
0:51.8	The default is something like, well, I'll just take the average of however the extremes
0:54.3	define themselves and you're not really making a choice or committing to anything.
0:58.6	But there is a robust centrism, an idea and embrace of the idea that in a pluralist society
1:04.2	what we have to do to get along is to try to see the other side's opinion and try to force
1:11.1	fully pursue solutions.
1:13.8	Something like that and also acknowledge that the solutions aren't always going to satisfy
1:18.0	your side tremendously.
1:19.4	This isn't the only way forward.
1:21.5	Another way forward is for one side or the other to totally dominate that is not going
1:27.3	on in the United States.
1:28.5	No matter what happens if you look at the midterms, we have parity in our electoral system.
1:34.0	So what can we do?
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