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To: koan who wrote (787850)	6/5/2014 3:15:02 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) of 1577376

I have answered your question in more than one way. I can offer other ways to view the same issue even though I doubt at this point you are capable of considering other views. When you have a disproportionate percentage of people lining up on the side of anything it raises questions. The tendency for people in the general population to position themselves as a conservative or liberal is pretty much distributed on a normal bell curve with 50% on one side of the continuum and 50 percent on the other side. Normal people think for themselves and see themselves agreeing with some liberal positions and some conservative issues, which is considered well balanced (I understand that doesn’t describe you). So when you ask normal individuals to consider individual points you should get such a balance. When you offer them a forced choice left/right to take on all issues, you get political party type responses. When you ask abnormal people to take a forced choice you get extremism. You may recall Saddam Hussein got a 100% approval rating prior to his down fall. What was operating there? Fear, it told us there was a significant fear factor in operation. When there is an extreme skew in either direction the obvious conclusion to draw is that something is upsetting the balance and it always involves fear. What fears are present for people, who believe they are bound to a voting block based on some demographic? What could happen if they chose a conservative position on a particular issue? What would be the result of changing parties when 90%+ of their identity culture would be upset about that? You should be able to answer that since you are one of the most frightened people I have ever encountered? What would happen if you had opposed your mother’s radical left politics? The fact that you would never have considered it, pretty much tells me all I need to know. If you say, you would have no fear, I know you would be lying. ”I repeat, unless you can…” Repeating a falsehood does not make it more true. *”I totally disagree with their philosophy.”* No doubt, but until you learn to think for yourself, that is a meaningless statement. It would be more accurate to say, the radical left doctrine does not accept my philosophy.

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