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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: epicure who wrote (9909)	1/27/2006 9:32:46 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (4) of 541479

since you are quite clearly wrong about what the far left is. I reacted to the same thing you did. And I agree with you that KLP's fulcrum is off. I think that part of the problem, though, is discussing this in terms of extremists. The extremes are defined by their ideas. The discussion, however, was about ugly partisan rhetoric, which isn't the same thing although there would appear to be some correlation. You can be extreme in your ideas but civil in your tone and you can also be mainstream in your ideas and ugly in your tone. The content of one's message and the tone of the message are two different things. KLP conflated them when she switched the framework from partisan ugliness to extreme ideology. KLP framed the wings with Falwell and Robertson vs. Dean and Pelosi, etc. Part of the reason for the etcetera only on one side, I think, is the mislocation of the fulcrum. My experience is that on the ideology scale, she is the equivalent of Dean and Pelosi while Falwell and Robertson are to the right of her. In terms of tone, she would also be the equivalent of Dean and Pelosi. Thus the distorted fulcrum.

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