Right, left, center--it's all out of whack.   Maybe it was never in whack.   If you're on the right, you're a fiscal conservative to the core.  But over the last eight years, didn't the right spend more money than god?  

 Is it a sliding scale? If so, where's the center?  

A few theories: 

1) The right has flung so far right that the center is "true left."

2) The left has flung so far left that the center is "true right.

3) the right and left have polarized so much that all that exists are two lunatic fringes, with a vast barren middle--incapable of supporting political life for more than a few hours.

Maybe this whole left-right thing is just a really lousy broken compass, too linear and static a model to define current political and socioeconomic dynamics.  Maybe it's become a detached instrument in a vacuum, unaffected by the principles that govern motion. Because of this, it thinks it is the center of all things but it is more like a lost two sided wrench floating in space, not even aware of its own lack of gravity.

Turn on CSPAN and you can watch it live as it drifts, incapable of generating its own speed, velocity or momentum.

And as you watch it drift, recognize that you are part of a force in potentia that has always been much greater and more dynamic than it ever was or ever could be.