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The liberal minority is the real fringe element in American politics
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 22 June, 2012 | James Lucier

Posted on 06/22/2012 11:14:38 AM PDT by marktwain

Ask any political guru worth his salt, and the savant will explain carefully the facts of the ideological landscape. On one end of the spectrum you have the Left. On the other end is the Right. In the middle are the centrists. There is a passion to label all candidates and voters and place them somewhere along this line.

In practice the mainstream media, the hired political tacticians and other operatives in the ruling class have a sort of shorthand rhetoric. The Left is presented as the normal—nothing to see here, folks—and the centrists are people who have unaccountably strayed from the normal and will ultimately come home again if “we can just get the messaging fine-tuned.”

The ruling class sees itself as the normative leaders of the nation. They have a vision to impose upon America, but they have a difficulty in that their vision is not accepted by most Americans.

The voters on the Right are exasperating people. They never are referred to just as the Right. They are inevitably called the Far Right, the Extreme Right, the Radical Right, or simply fascists or racists. The ruling class believes that these people constitute a dangerous fringe that is beyond the pale of decency and a threat to democracy.

So much for the self-appointed mainstream view.

Every year the Gallup Poll conducts a survey of U.S. voters asking them where they place themselves along the political spectrum. For the last decade or so the results have been the same, give or take a few points. In the most recent poll, 41 percent of the sample told the pollsters that they consider themselves “conservative.” That number has increased slightly, perhaps emboldened by the destructive excess of the Obama revolution. In addition, 36 percent called themselves “moderate.” Only 21 percent claimed

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: centrist; conservative; liberal; msm
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1 posted on 06/22/2012 11:14:49 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

The issue is the shifting political spectrum. What was once a moderate position is now labeled radical right fascists. Most radical rights are actually quite moderate. We simply want the control freaks to mind their own damn business.


2 posted on 06/22/2012 11:40:09 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: marktwain

The Left (Politicos, and their sycophants in the media) has been working many years to redefine perspectives to their advantage

Todays Conservative is identified by what the Left has redefined a Conservative to be. We, most of us at FR aren’t what we think Conservatives are anymore. Just read the paper any given day, or hear a radio report identifying certain persons as Conservatives when you, and I know very well they are Leftist as “H”.

The Left has successfully relabeled much of the political arena to discredit anything that isn’t them. We as true Conservatives are in today’s Leftist perspective Radical Right Wing Extremists, and the Mitt Romney types are Conservatives.

It’s the connotation that counts in this psycho warfare of the Left’s. We should really, perhaps some day join the fight, and kick their butts.


3 posted on 06/22/2012 12:01:07 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: marktwain

If you want to see the lunatic left fringe masquerading as “mainstream”, watch CBSABCNBC. If you want to see the lunatic left as it really is, watch MSNBC.


4 posted on 06/22/2012 12:01:07 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: SJackson
Defying the politically correct minority, 71 percent of Americans say that they are pro-Israel. Anti-Israeli pronouncements have become the new socially acceptable anti-semitism. But Americans were Zionists long before the establishment of Israel. Reading the documents of the 19th century evangelical movement known as the Great Awakening, we see that emigrants from Europe saw themselves as fleeing from Pharaoh, that is to say, the tyrannical governments of their homelands. They saw the United States as the New Jerusalem of scripture, and established communities named such as Salem, Massachusetts; Salem, North Carolina; and Salem, Oregon. Scores of communities were named Mt. Zion, as well as hundreds and hundreds of local churches. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, as well as Goshen, Indiana, are examples of the same Zionist Biblical enthusiasm, as well as plenty of Mt. Gileads, Bethesdas, and the odd name or two like Ephrata. This was hardly the work of a sinister Jewish lobby, but Americans were perfectly ready to support the Jews in the creation of modern Israel when President Harry Truman, a man from Missouri, nobody’s fool and nobody’s tool, extended diplomatic recognition to Israel 24 hours after the new nation was proclaimed. So it is no wonder that 71 percent of Americans support Israel, even as Obama allows the Israeli prime minister to cool his heels in the White House, while bowing low before the tyrant king of Saudi Arabia.

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5 posted on 06/22/2012 1:33:01 PM PDT by GOPJ (The 'doting court eunuchs' of the MSM fail to notice...)
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