About Us

Wait...is that a platypus? Yep.

So…two Gen-Xers walk into a bar, talking about our mutual disgust for the pervasiveness of hate generated cancel culture. Then starts the riffing. One of us says “We should have a third party, the Alt-Center! Our platform would be all those reasonable things like keep right except to pass”… and the basic kindergarten rules we seem to have abandoned.  (Mrs. Littlefield definitely would have taken recess away.)  The bartender was like “Oh yeah? What would your mascot be?”

And so, the very compromising (or possibly non-consensually compromised) duck billed platypus was officially adopted. An egg laying aquatic mammal that’s duck up front, beaver in the back, and sporting poisonous spurs. Spicy!

We liked it but thought it could use some zhuzhing. The beret for our rebellious nature.  The grenade laced olive branch to impart our insistence for compromise…by any means necessary.  (Easy to all the killers out there…we’re being sardonic.  If you don't know what sardonic means...it means you should read more.) 

We are passionate about being the kind of Americans we hope to encounter; critically thinking, tough to bully, accountable, and unafraid of difficult conversations…all while keeping our hands to ourselves.

So, pull the pin with us! Our ultimate goals are to relieve our own pressure valve in a productive way and to donate a portion of our profits (once we have some!) to those things we all need...because we are all human first.