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I'm a left leaning moderate, and I find extremists very scary. Lefties who want to get rid of corporations and the pentagon scare me. Righties who want to get rid of the federal reserve and federal government scare me more.
It's very hard to find moderates these days. Either you listen to Ron Paul or Noam Chomsky.
I'm a left leaning moderate, and I find extremists very scary. Lefties who want to get rid of corporations and the pentagon scare me. Righties who want to get rid of the federal reserve and federal government scare me more.
It's very hard to find moderates these days. Either you listen to Ron Paul or Noam Chomsky.
What is it that scares you about deleting the UnFederal, Federal Reserve from our nation? Just the fact that some of us have the "bowling apparatus" to actually do it?
It's not like we'll cease to have a currency without these private bankers that are truly criminal. Our constitution provides for us to have a currency and it does not include or need the Fed.
Moderates are out there, and we are the majority. Who do you think is voting for Romney compared to the more conservative candidates? Likewise in 2008, Obama was/is a centrist compared to Clinton, Edwards, et al.
The issue is that the extremes get more coverage because they are more vocal, hence they attract more media coverage. Compared to the edges, centrist are absolutely boring. We go about our lives working, raising our kids, and minding our own business. When either side starts getting too much power, we move to the other end to balance things out.
Getting rid of the Fed shouldn't scare you. in fact if you look into it you will learn it was a system brought here by some powerful bankers. and benefits only the bankers, not the country. btw.. i would be called a liberal. the fed was a bad system we would be far better off without.
To the wingnuts that makes me a Marxist. They dont scare me as much as I cant stand them for hijacking the GOP and turning it into the caricature the Dems were talking about 20 years ago. Currently they are also making more loony noise than the moonbats; just look on these boards.
OWS was a bunch of left noise but that quickly fell apart protesting a million random things in 30 irrelevant cities hippie/anarchist fest. I do remember the year 2000 so, yes I do remember when it was opposite.
Hafta disagree above. Obama is a liberal. Note I said liberal, not socialist, marxist, or Muslim. The reason he could not govern as liberal as he campaigned: Did anyone else notice he aged 10 years after he had the president to president talks passing of the uber secrets? Nothing can prepare you for what you carry on your shoulders as president.
And yes, I know, I have no political home anymore.
Moderates are out there, and we are the majority. Who do you think is voting for Romney compared to the more conservative candidates? Likewise in 2008, Obama was/is a centrist compared to Clinton, Edwards, et al.
The issue is that the extremes get more coverage because they are more vocal, hence they attract more media coverage. Compared to the edges, centrist are absolutely boring. We go about our lives working, raising our kids, and minding our own business. When either side starts getting too much power, we move to the other end to balance things out.
I agree with this.
I am a center left moderate IMO and I am not afraid of much but I do fear extremes on both sides. I also feel that the media portrays these extremes due to their entertainment factor. Most of us moderates can even laugh at them or think they are out of their minds but it is scary to me that so many people are so easily pulled to extremes. I am comforted by the fact that there are more moderates than extremist, but even for someone like me, who is not easily afraid of anything, groups of crazy extremist do frighten me a bit.
I'm a left leaning moderate, and I find extremists very scary. Lefties who want to get rid of corporations and the pentagon scare me. Righties who want to get rid of the federal reserve and federal government scare me more.
It's very hard to find moderates these days. Either you listen to Ron Paul or Noam Chomsky.
Nope, since the American People are know for not tolerating extremists in major political positions of power. Paul wants some of the things that scare you, the end of the Fed and nutering the military, so you might want to rethink who you consider moderate.
I would think that most Americans are moderates - some with a left slant, others with a right slant. Just like a good old bell curve, there are very few on the extreme ends. For whatever reason, times were right for those who are a bit more extreme to raise their voices really, really loudly. The majority of these people were still not extremists - they were just not as close to the center as the rest of us.
There are those, of course, who fail to realize that a balanced approach tends to make most people happy - even if balance means that we are sometimes more right or more left as a nation. Those people simply fail to understand that the rest of the world does not live their lives, that people's needs and experiences differ from theirs.
Extremism always requires ignorance, no matter what extreme it pursues.
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