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Subject: Re: Left, Middle, and "Center" are flawed political terms

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Sean Smythe

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Date Posted: 20:29:54 01/02/03 Thu
In reply to: AJMD 's message, "Left, Middle, and "Center" are flawed political terms" on 11:33:06 12/21/02 Sat

The scale of political views is for children not adults. The entire purpose of the mythical "scale" is to exclude certain views; usually the only ones that matter. It is an exersize in media puppetry. In one scanario you have two sides: yes or no. The mythical scale give us the crackpot middle which is a "weak yes" with sugar cand coating for the people who have no time to think about issues. A weak yes is still a yes is still a yes as anyone who has ever seen a drive-in movie will understand. Disagreement does not make a person an extremist. The real extremists are the liberals who censor information by calling people "extremists". It is an appelation which is also a threat.

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