I'm curious. What do you think of Coulter, and other folks who claim the left is "insane", or liberals are "insane", or "evil", or that they "hate America". Seems to me that's every bit as hateful as claiming folks who are conservative are "insane" "evil", or "hate America".
I presume we all love our country- we just love it in different ways. Some of us concentrate more on what we want to be better, and some of us want to wave the flag about what's great. Seems to me both ways of looking at the country are needed. And neither side seems particularly insane to me (except on certain issues- the left is flakey (for example) on global warming, and the right is nutty on guns (kind of a "when all you've got is a gun, everything looks like a target" approach- to take just one topic for each side imo, yada yada yada.) And of course evil always seems to mean "you don't think the way I do, ergo you are evil" which just seems stupid to me- which ever side is doing it.
Not that I think I'm a centrist. Far from it. I'm VERY liberal on most social issues, and pragmatic, when it comes to crime and punishment, rather than punitive. |
