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Old 01-21-2010, 01:25 PM
 
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Neoconservative extremists engaged in their hatred create an overpopulation of liberals.

Liberal extremists engaged in their hatred create an over population of neocons.

In the spirit of citizenship taking responsibility for the landscape we share, at what point do you think it appropriate to cull the herd dominating the political process?
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Old 01-21-2010, 01:28 PM
 
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Without extremists how does one claim to be moderate? You eliminate your basis of comparison. Your definition of "extremist" may not match that of one who is either more conservative or more liberal of yourself.

When is it appropriate for extremists to declare "open season" on moderates? If your answer is never then you also have the answer to your original question.
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Old 01-21-2010, 03:33 PM
 
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Without extremists how does one claim to be moderate? You eliminate your basis of comparison. Your definition of "extremist" may not match that of one who is either more conservative or more liberal of yourself.

When is it appropriate for extremists to declare "open season" on moderates? If your answer is never then you also have the answer to your original question.
You apparently missed something in translation, so I'll reiterate. The game afoot between extremists (defined, propagandists) serves to generate contention, divisiveness, and misattributed blame. They undermine meaningful discussions about issues and bury facts under a pile of rhetoric. When the population is sufficiently dumbed down, we the people get abused equally.

We are not in need of extremists. We are in need of each brain in the political spectrum to identify problems and articulate solutions in a political system that should foster the better ideas prevailing on the basis of meritocracy ALONE. We are NOT in need of grudge matches, of political dominance in service to preserving it's own existence, or to rag tag yahoos who armchair quarterback.
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Old 01-21-2010, 03:40 PM
 
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It's well know it is the left winger extremeist that are violent, dangerous and filled with hate. Most every one of their protests are filled with hate, violence, property damage and police.
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Old 01-21-2010, 03:54 PM
 
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It's well know it is the left winger extremeist that are violent, dangerous and filled with hate. Most every one of their protests are filled with hate, violence, property damage and police.
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Old 01-21-2010, 04:02 PM
 
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You apparently missed something in translation, so I'll reiterate. The game afoot between extremists (defined, propagandists) serves to generate contention, divisiveness, and misattributed blame. They undermine meaningful discussions about issues and bury facts under a pile of rhetoric. When the population is sufficiently dumbed down, we the people get abused equally.

We are not in need of extremists. We are in need of each brain in the political spectrum to identify problems and articulate solutions in a political system that should foster the better ideas prevailing on the basis of meritocracy ALONE. We are NOT in need of grudge matches, of political dominance in service to preserving it's own existence, or to rag tag yahoos who armchair quarterback.
The only part of your statement that addresses the issue is "When the population is sufficiently dumbed down...".

Your attempt to make this an "extremist" issue is really one of education and the lack of the ability of the average American voter to understand anything about their history, their Constitution, how their government is run vs. how the Constitution designed it to run, and the very ugly and corrupt ways in which the "sausage" of legislation is made.

So who missed what?
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Old 01-21-2010, 04:09 PM
 
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It's well know it is the left winger extremeist that are violent, dangerous and filled with hate. Most every one of their protests are filled with hate, violence, property damage and police.
Don't you realize how extreme your view is? The left fights for rights, the right fights for control. Of course there would be a difference in their strategies. Your use of the word hate is truly baffling, a catchword for something you cannot grasp. Were the blacks who protested in the 50s and 60s full of hate? This thread talks about culling the herd, of eliminating the extremes. Clearly your very lopsided viewpoint puts you in danger.
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Old 01-21-2010, 04:11 PM
 
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Can you label extremists by looking at them now? They wear a brand?

Doesn't really matter anyways, people tolerate extremists if they point the same way on issues. Just look at Ann Coulter, embraced by conservatives even though she wishes to invade the middle east, kill all the leaders, and convert all the heathens to Christianity.
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Old 01-21-2010, 04:32 PM
 
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Don't you realize how extreme your view is? The left fights for rights, the right fights for control. Of course there would be a difference in their strategies. Your use of the word hate is truly baffling, a catchword for something you cannot grasp. Were the blacks who protested in the 50s and 60s full of hate? This thread talks about culling the herd, of eliminating the extremes. Clearly your very lopsided viewpoint puts you in danger.
The far left is mimicking what you identify as far right. They're in effect subverting justice in their endeavor to steer/ manipulate. They're suppressing evidence through voluminous propaganda.

Culling the herd in my meaning does not erase the existence of any in the poli spectrum, but rather, restores order to the eco system where propagandists have over taken the landscape. Other species don't have rights when propagandists, intent on domination and self service, trump the constitution to the detriment of all.

The rules of engagement need to change because this isn't working for we the people.
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Old 01-21-2010, 05:31 PM
 
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Don't you realize how extreme your view is? The left fights for rights, the right fights for control. Of course there would be a difference in their strategies. Your use of the word hate is truly baffling, a catchword for something you cannot grasp. Were the blacks who protested in the 50s and 60s full of hate? This thread talks about culling the herd, of eliminating the extremes. Clearly your very lopsided viewpoint puts you in danger.

The blacks in the 60's were fighting to right a wrong... but the left is not about "rights" any more. They are about power and control even more so than the right is... and that is alot

Harborlady has a point, the radical factions of BOTH parties are the problem. You taking a side and trying to rationalize one extremist while vilifying the other does not help
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