The final episode of a three part series looking at how the American philosophical tradition of Pragmatism has caused American political theory to stagnate and actual politics to be stuck in a centrist rut. Bernie Sanders breaks out of this tradition on the left and offers a more ideological alternative to the typical centrism by focusing on morality first rather than practical, pragmatic arguments. I look at how America’s effort to avoid the ideological extremism of the 20th century has forced on it unimaginative political thinking. The work of pragmatist Richard Rorty seems to embody the best and the worst of this cautious, technocratic thinking.