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Originally Posted by peter12
I'm not totally sure that's how it works. I think that radicals on both the right and left distort rather than shift the political spectrum. It's an extreme example, but look at Weimar Germany. You could not imagine a more diverse spectrum of radical political options. They, of course, distorted the debate until the moderate liberal centrists were basically drowned as different ideologues argued, battled, and fought over whose utopian vision was best suited for the Volk, workers, whatever.
We all know what happened next.
The genius of America is that it typically segments and isolates radical voices so that they don't have a disproportionate impact across government and society.
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So called moderate liberal centrists suck. They don’t give a #### about anyone but themselves. Selfish and quicker to criticize the left than they are to criticize actual fascists and racists. It’s true. It’s true.