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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (236000)10/28/2013 12:53:17 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 543321
 
That's my point, Steve, the false equivalence point. If you take as "extreme" the fact that there is always a middle ground and always a left and right to the middle ground and the left and right are the "extremes" then, at least definitionally, there is no argument.

And, moreover, as Sam says a bit further down, if you accept the right wants smaller government and the left wants bigger government as the mantra for all this, then there you go.

But if you start with the notion (but don't stop there) that "extreme" is favoring anti democratic means to get your way, then only the much further right favors that at the moment, at least within the elected members of the state and federal government.
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