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Old 08-22-2009, 06:09 PM   #111
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Originally Posted by Bunk View Post
I don't understand why you had to be rude to me in response to my opinion.

I'm more or less a pragmatic centrist so I don't usually believe in extreme opinions no matter what the political ideology, but the US right seem to have a particularly hateful and ignorant bent.
I was mocking the fact that you didn't say anything other than a one line piece of rhetoric that is recycled every day by people that have no idea what they're talking about.

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Originally Posted by MarchHare View Post
The far-left in the US is still on the fringes -- the Democratic Party has, in an overall sense, a center-left (or even center-right by the standards of other Western democracies) platform.

On the other hand, the extreme far-right seems to be the core of the Republican Party these days. That's why the far-right is worse than the extreme-left -- one actually has some power and influence, whereas the other does not. On another political forum I visit, almost all of the rational fiscal conservatives have given up on the Republican Party because it's been taken over by the wing-nuts. There will almost certainly be a major schism in the party soon between the fiscal conservatives and religious conservatives.
^Here's a good example of someone that has a thought-out opinion.

Sorry, Bunk. I'm being a bit of a dick today.
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