I consider myself a leftist progressive. I don't denounce the term socialist.

But often times the left is so full of themselves (and full of shit) that it makes me realize the benefit of "the center".

The main problem with political extremes is they take themselves too seriously.

Enter: Adultism (right on cue)

Adultism is the everyday, systematic, and institutionalized oppression that young people face at the hands of adults. It is the training ground for conditioning people to live in and accept a society based exploitation, violence and hierarchies of race, class, and gender and other identities. Adultism is the comprehensive process our society uses to teach babies and young children that the way to survive in the world is to put up shields of protection around their loving, spontaneous, curious, connected and creative selves and, in self-defense, to pass on their pain, anger, and frustration in abuse towards other people or towards themselves.

I really do support what this "ism" is attempting to convey. The children are the future, after all, and as adults we often do a crappy job recognizing our place in relation to them.

But do we really need another "ism"? I feel that often leftists won't be satisfied unless there is an "ism" attached to everything. We might want to call this "ismism".

Put another way: I don't think people have the right to mistreat other people, but I also don't think people have the right to never be offended.