Editing Radical centrism (section)

=== Analysis ===
* North America and Western Europe have entered an [[Information Age]] [[Digital economy|economy]], with new possibilities that are barely being tapped.<ref>Halstead and Lind (2001), pp. 13, 56–58, and 64.</ref><ref>Satin (2004), pp. 14–17.</ref>
* In this new age, a plurality of people is neither liberal nor conservative, but independent<ref>Avlon (2004), pp. 1 and 13.</ref> and looking to move in a more appropriate direction.<ref>Miller (2003), p. 52.</ref>
* Nevertheless, the major political parties are committed to ideas developed in, and for, a different era; and are unwilling or unable to realistically address the future.<ref>Avlon (2004), p. 19.</ref><ref name="Lind 2001 pp. 223">Halstead and Lind (2001), pp. 223–24.</ref>
* Most people in the Information Age want to maximize the amount of choice they have in their lives.<ref>Halstead and Lind (2001), p. 19.</ref><ref name=Ivor>Satin (2004), pp. 6–8.</ref>
* In addition, people are insisting that they be given a fair opportunity to succeed in the new world they are entering.<ref name=Ivor /><ref>Miller (2003), Chap. 4.</ref>