So I notice a lot of you are.... extreme.

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[bripat9643]

the board used to be pretty balanced.

it's leans pretty far right now.... and the radical right posters post A LOT of threads.

That means the right-wingers are winning, Jillian.

Scary, isn't it?

 

[AmericanFirst]

...At least a little.

I hear a lot of you like to generalize all liberals as being the same. Some of you say that they are liars; they are lazy; they are socialists that are ruining the country, etc. Come on, really? ALL liberals are lazy hippies and socialist pigs? Do you even know any liberals personally? Seeing a piece about them on Fox News doesn't count.

Isn't that the problem with politics today? They have become so polarized. Do you know how to get the truth behind political issues? It's by thinking crtically. You look at both the conservative and the liberal POV, and decide who is right.

Don't watch Fox News or MSNBC... or better yet, watch them both!

I'd give liberals the same speech, but there doesn't appear to be any on this forum

I know some. They may not be lazy, but they are sure off in the head.

 

[candycorn]

...At least a little.

I hear a lot of you like to generalize all liberals as being the same. Some of you say that they are liars; they are lazy; they are socialists that are ruining the country, etc. Come on, really? ALL liberals are lazy hippies and socialist pigs? Do you even know any liberals personally? Seeing a piece about them on Fox News doesn't count.

Isn't that the problem with politics today? They have become so polarized. Do you know how to get the truth behind political issues? It's by thinking crtically. You look at both the conservative and the liberal POV, and decide who is right.

Don't watch Fox News or MSNBC... or better yet, watch them both!

I'd give liberals the same speech, but there doesn't appear to be any on this forum

Uhhhhhhhh....

The problem with being in the middle of the road is that, it is said, there is a long streak painted yellow on it (meaning of course that those in the middle like myself are somehow scared to take one hard stance or the other--not true by the way).

The problem with being an extremest is that you're either in the woods to the left or the woods to the right of the road. You're entrenched.


The problem for the country is that we have too many in the woods on the left and the right and the only way to get anywhere is to get on the road and go!

The cynics will point out that the road goes both ways, progress and retreat. Those who worry about retreat, I submit, are simply put, scared. Get out of the woods and move the country forward.

 

[Dragon]

That means the right-wingers are winning, Jillian.

Scary, isn't it?

USMB ain't exactly a crucial battlefield, bub. Nor is it a microcosm of America.

 

[BDBoop]

Well.... I mean - it IS, if by "microcosm of America" you mean "the psych wards thereof."

 

[California Girl]

Message boards seem to have a disproportionate number of right wing extremists. Notice that candidates with minimal support in polls will be extremely popular on these boards, and that ideas that the general public is strongly against will be recited like a sacred pledge.

Anyone who labels Americans as 'extremist' because they are passionate about their politics is a fucking idiot. That would include you.

idiot.

 

[Ropey]

...At least a little.

I hear a lot of you like to generalize all liberals as being the same. Some of you say that they are liars; they are lazy; they are socialists that are ruining the country, etc. Come on, really? ALL liberals are lazy hippies and socialist pigs? Do you even know any liberals personally? Seeing a piece about them on Fox News doesn't count.

Isn't that the problem with politics today? They have become so polarized. Do you know how to get the truth behind political issues? It's by thinking crtically. You look at both the conservative and the liberal POV, and decide who is right.

Don't watch Fox News or MSNBC... or better yet, watch them both
I'd give liberals the same speech, but there doesn't appear to be any on this forum:dunno:

The silver edit?

Diatribe imho.

 

[Dragon]

Anyone who labels Americans as 'extremist' because they are passionate about their politics is a fucking idiot.

Being passionate about politics is one thing. Being irrational about them is another.

Holding views different from the mainstream is one thing. Failing to recognize that they ARE different from the mainstream is another.

An awful lot of the right-wing posters here not only hold views far outside the American mainstream, and do so irrationally, but fail to perceive that they are outside the mainstream. While "extremist" may or may not be the right word to apply to that phenomenon, it is I think what was meant by it.

 

[SAT]

Anyone who labels Americans as 'extremist' because they are passionate about their politics is a fucking idiot.

Being passionate about politics is one thing. Being irrational about them is another.

Holding views different from the mainstream is one thing. Failing to recognize that they ARE different from the mainstream is another.

An awful lot of the right-wing posters here not only hold views far outside the American mainstream, and do so irrationally, but fail to perceive that they are outside the mainstream. While "extremist" may or may not be the right word to apply to that phenomenon, it is I think what was meant by it.

Well said.

On these boards, people who claim to be conservative are often FAR outside of the mainstream. They hold views straight out of the John Birch Society, but they are under the impression that they are right in the mainstream of American political thought.

 

[bripat9643]

Being passionate about politics is one thing. Being irrational about them is another.

Holding views different from the mainstream is one thing. Failing to recognize that they ARE different from the mainstream is another.

An awful lot of the right-wing posters here not only hold views far outside the American mainstream, and do so irrationally, but fail to perceive that they are outside the mainstream. While "extremist" may or may not be the right word to apply to that phenomenon, it is I think what was meant by it.

That's utterly hilarious coming from a committed Marxist. When has Marxism ever been "mainstream?"

Do you actually believe your views are "mainstream?"

 

[BDBoop]

Anyone who labels Americans as 'extremist' because they are passionate about their politics is a fucking idiot.

Being passionate about politics is one thing. Being irrational about them is another.

Holding views different from the mainstream is one thing. Failing to recognize that they ARE different from the mainstream is another.

An awful lot of the right-wing posters here not only hold views far outside the American mainstream, and do so irrationally, but fail to perceive that they are outside the mainstream. While "extremist" may or may not be the right word to apply to that phenomenon, it is I think what was meant by it.

Well said.

On these boards, people who claim to be conservative are often FAR outside of the mainstream. They hold views straight out of the John Birch Society, but they are under the impression that they are right in the mainstream of American political thought.

That's actually good to know, Sat. Thanks.

 

[Meister]

...At least a little.

I hear a lot of you like to generalize all liberals as being the same. Some of you say that they are liars; they are lazy; they are socialists that are ruining the country, etc. Come on, really? ALL liberals are lazy hippies and socialist pigs? Do you even know any liberals personally? Seeing a piece about them on Fox News doesn't count.

Isn't that the problem with politics today? They have become so polarized. Do you know how to get the truth behind political issues? It's by thinking crtically. You look at both the conservative and the liberal POV, and decide who is right.

Don't watch Fox News or MSNBC... or better yet, watch them both!

I'd give liberals the same speech, but there doesn't appear to be any on this forum

With far left wingers, anything just right of center is extreme.

 

[BDBoop]

...At least a little.

I hear a lot of you like to generalize all liberals as being the same. Some of you say that they are liars; they are lazy; they are socialists that are ruining the country, etc. Come on, really? ALL liberals are lazy hippies and socialist pigs? Do you even know any liberals personally? Seeing a piece about them on Fox News doesn't count.

Isn't that the problem with politics today? They have become so polarized. Do you know how to get the truth behind political issues? It's by thinking crtically. You look at both the conservative and the liberal POV, and decide who is right.

Don't watch Fox News or MSNBC... or better yet, watch them both!

I'd give liberals the same speech, but there doesn't appear to be any on this forum

With far left wingers, anything just right of center is extreme.

And vice-versa. Gee, look how easy being a hack is.

 

[Amelia]

...At least a little.

I hear a lot of you like to generalize all liberals as being the same. Some of you say that they are liars; they are lazy; they are socialists that are ruining the country, etc. Come on, really? ALL liberals are lazy hippies and socialist pigs? Do you even know any liberals personally? Seeing a piece about them on Fox News doesn't count.

Isn't that the problem with politics today? They have become so polarized. Do you know how to get the truth behind political issues? It's by thinking crtically. You look at both the conservative and the liberal POV, and decide who is right.

Don't watch Fox News or MSNBC... or better yet, watch them both!

I'd give liberals the same speech, but there doesn't appear to be any on this forum

With far left wingers, anything just right of center is extreme.

With far left wingers, things to the left of center can be extreme.

Remember when Juan Williams was accused of being part of the right wing ... and sometimes even far right? I don't know if it happened here, but that was a very popular opinion at HuffPo.

Joe Lieberman is another rightwinger to them over there. Again ... I don't know what the view on him is here.

 

[Dragon]

That's utterly hilarious coming from a committed Marxist. When has Marxism ever been "mainstream?"

I am not a Marxist. I was, years ago, but study of Marx showed me where he got things seriously wrong -- which I doubt you would be able to identify. However, although you're wrong about that:

Do you actually believe your views are "mainstream?"

No, I don't. And that puts me in a far more rational category than, for example, yourself. Your views are no more mainstream than mine. The difference is that I know that, and you don't.

 

[Meister]

...At least a little.

I hear a lot of you like to generalize all liberals as being the same. Some of you say that they are liars; they are lazy; they are socialists that are ruining the country, etc. Come on, really? ALL liberals are lazy hippies and socialist pigs? Do you even know any liberals personally? Seeing a piece about them on Fox News doesn't count.

Isn't that the problem with politics today? They have become so polarized. Do you know how to get the truth behind political issues? It's by thinking crtically. You look at both the conservative and the liberal POV, and decide who is right.

Don't watch Fox News or MSNBC... or better yet, watch them both!

I'd give liberals the same speech, but there doesn't appear to be any on this forum

With far left wingers, anything just right of center is extreme.

And vice-versa. Gee, look how easy being a hack is.

I am much more tolerant to the just left of center than you are with the just right of center.

 

[Meister]

i'm not sure which is funnier, the notion that there are no liberals here or the notion that you'd give them the same speech.

Okay, well you have noticed that I started this membership two days ago, right? In truth I've seen a couple, but most of what I have seen are a lot of libertarian/conservatives.

no, i haven't noticed, but that's okay. when you find a nest of 'em, just lay the speech on them.

it's all good.

yeah, like that will ever happen
Kinda like when they try and smear the Koch brothers, but Soros is just a great American patriot.

 

[BDBoop]

With far left wingers, anything just right of center is extreme.

And vice-versa. Gee, look how easy being a hack is.

I am much more tolerant to the just left of center than you are with the just right of center.

I can only assume your mirror is broken, sunshine.

 

[Meister]

And vice-versa. Gee, look how easy being a hack is.

I am much more tolerant to the just left of center than you are with the just right of center.

I can only assume your mirror is broken, sunshine.

Sorry, pumpkin....no mirror on my end.