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Do you consider yourself to be a political extremist?

Do you consider yourself to be a political extremist?

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radcen said:
Do you consider yourself to be a political extremist?

Right extreme, left extreme, even Libertarian extreme.
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Most people don't like to think of themselves as extremists.

The term, of course, is subjective and relative for the most part. Who is "extreme" depends on where you stand and how far you're looking.


I try specifically to avoid certain sorts of extremism. The most obvious thing is let's not kill or imprison people who aren't actually harming anyone.

Another is more subtle: let's not change things so drastically so FAST that the average person gets steamrollered flat by wheels of change; moving to fast for him to adapt. You can't just kick the entire applecart over at once without real living people getting squished.

The third way I try to practice of avoiding extremism is recognizing the necessity of compromise. Compromise is often distasteful but almost always necessary, as the only alternative is force or coercion, something a free society should hold to a bare minimum.



Churchill: "a fanatic is someone who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." :)
 
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Holy **** maybe I am an extremist now that most Americans supporting the president watch Alex Jones, and now I am an extremist since I stopped watching Infowars...

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radcen said:
Do you consider yourself to be a political extremist?
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As a moderate, I consider myself extremely extreme in todays political climate.
 
I find the agenda of the Democratic party to be generally in line with my way of thinking...That way of thinking has not changed much over the past 60+ years...So no, I find nothing extreme in my political agenda...It's the same as it was for John F. Kennedy through Barack Obama, my congressmen and senators down through the decades.

I'm sure the far right wing of the Republican party (which is now in control), finds their agenda in the norm for them as well. For me they represent the antithesis to my agenda and likewise I'm sure....Extremism is in the eye of the beholder.
 
Russell797 said:
I find the agenda of the Democratic party to be generally in line with my way of thinking...That way of thinking has not changed much over the past 60+ years...So no, I find nothing extreme in my political agenda...It's the same as it was for John F. Kennedy through Barack Obama, my congressmen and senators down through the decades.

I'm sure the far right wing of the Republican party (which is now in control), finds their agenda in the norm for them as well. For me they represent the antithesis to my agenda and likewise I'm sure....Extremism is in the eye of the beholder.
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Extremism has nothing to do with consistency. One can easily be consistently extreme.
 
Russell797 said:
I find the agenda of the Democratic party to be generally in line with my way of thinking...That way of thinking has not changed much over the past 60+ years...So no, I find nothing extreme in my political agenda...It's the same as it was for John F. Kennedy through Barack Obama, my congressmen and senators down through the decades.

I'm sure the far right wing of the Republican party (which is now in control), finds their agenda in the norm for them as well. For me they represent the antithesis to my agenda and likewise I'm sure....Extremism is in the eye of the beholder.
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Hasn't the US as a whole gotten more conservative though? Barry Goldwater was considered far right in the 1960s, now he'd be considered a moderate.
 
radcen said:
Extremism has nothing to do with consistency. One can easily be consistently extreme.
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Well then I suppose the Democratic agenda going back to the 1930s is extreme according to you? For me extremism is a radical shift from what has been the norm. That standard fits the Republicans like a glove..The far right wing of their party has taken control of the government....That party has a great deal of diversity, much more so than do the Dems. The Dems are much more unified in their collect vision for the country..
 
Soopairik said:
Hasn't the US as a whole gotten more conservative though? Barry Goldwater was considered far right in the 1960s, now he'd be considered a moderate.
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No, it's becoming more liberal. The influx of non whites has driven a shift to the left. The popular vote demonstrates that fact..Gerrymandering is how the declining percentage of white rural America is able to win presidential elections.

In how many presidential elections have the Republicans won the popular vote since 1990?
 
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Russell797 said:
No, it's becoming more liberal. The influx of non whites has driven a shift to the left. The popular vote demonstrates that fact..Gerrymandering is how the declining percentage of white rural America is able to win presidential elections.

In how many presidential elections have the Republicans won the popular vote since 1990?
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One out of three.
 
There are things I care about to the extreme.
 
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