Epoch Times - California entrepreneur Elaine Culotti believes Republicans and Democrats have abandoned the middle.

Feb. 22, 2026 - Epoch Times

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California entrepreneur Elaine Culotti believes Republicans and Democrats have abandoned the middle.

California entrepreneur Elaine Culotti argues that political polarization has forced moderates into extreme positions, with party-affiliated "fight coaches" demanding rigid loyalty. Neither GOP nor DNC champions middle-ground solutions, instead favoring flawed proposals over bipartisan compromise, leaving hardworking taxpayers like her abandoned by both sides. This shift suggests a broken system where ideological purity trumps practical unity, deepening divisions at the expense of common-sense progress. [Automatically generated summary]
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	And instead, what has happened is these two boxers have gone to their corners.
	And their corners have their posse and their fighter, their fight coaches saying, you got to win, you got to say this, you got to do that, you got to do this, you got to say that, you got to do this.
	And the whole swath in the middle is like, I don't know if I agree with that, or I don't know if I agree with that.
	And I can certainly tell you, as not a political person, just as a hardworking taxpayer entrepreneur, my party left me a long time ago.
	And when we have massive races going across the U.S., the Republican Party and the Democratic Party do not come forward as a group, so as a GOP or a DNC, and support good ideas in the middle.
	They would rather support a bad idea on their team than a good idea in the middle.
	And that's terrible.

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Middle Ground Misunderstood 00:01:03

And instead, what has happened is these two boxers have gone to their corners.

And their corners have their posse and their fighter, their fight coaches saying, you got to win, you got to say this, you got to do that, you got to do this, you got to say that, you got to do this.

And the whole swath in the middle is like, I don't know if I agree with that, or I don't know if I agree with that.

And I can certainly tell you, as not a political person, just as a hardworking taxpayer entrepreneur, my party left me a long time ago.

And when we have massive races going across the U.S., the Republican Party and the Democratic Party do not come forward as a group, so as a GOP or a DNC, and support good ideas in the middle.

They would rather support a bad idea on their team than a good idea in the middle.

And that's terrible.