Something's a bit out of balance here.

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Y'know, I am of the opinion that if more people actually got active and neck-deep in activism for the causes they believed in, the Right-Left divide would not be as extreme as it is in the USA now. Too many people on both sides are content on forming their opinions based on what they see in the media. I see both sides as fair game as the result of that culture of sloth that has become pervasive in America. Opinions should not be formed by the media - they should be formed through life experience and personal observations.

Most people I know despise the political system of two opposing cultural extremes having the most power, BTW.

That makes no sense.

Raptor's Buckley quote probably says it best:

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Though the mentioned attitude is not universal among liberals, it is common enough to make criticizing them a far more satisfying endeavor, as they often are truly shocked that any thinking person could disagree with them. If you happen to be an educated and articulate person who can back up your disagreements with both logic and rhetoric, then the fun just grows and grows. Look at the refusal of many Democrats to admit any of Obama's faults, even well known and unambiguously odious ones like his selectively secret kill list and crackdown on whistle-blowers. This sort of willful ignorance/self deception would be bad enough coming from anyone, but when it comes from people who continuously claim to own both the moral and intellectual high ground? That type of hypocrisy deserves, no demands, a strong slap down. Which I am more than happy to provide, on occasion.

well we do have to live amongst them even if we don't choose to. It's not like they turn on TV and get a conservative view, or watch pop culture and get a conservative view, or go to college or high school and get a conservative view. Life is so easy for them, they just hear themselves echoed in Time magazine, or the NYTimes or by Bill Maher, and think that thats just the way reality is.

The Obama administration gets away with what they get away with because they have good intentions, unlike the republicans who kill and starve people discriminately. And... the ends justify the means. There are bigger goals that we have to achieve, the thinking goes, and the morality of those goals are so great that we cannot let hypocrisy, immorality, and civil liberties get in our way of achieving them.

Meaning well, only hearing the world around them echoed to them, and having the ends justify the means pervades much of the left's behavior.

The best thing for the 99 percent of U.S. citizens and residents is for the GOP to separate itself from -both- the neo-cons (who are really Trotsky-ites who have Seen the Light) and the Crony Capitalists who want to disguise an oligarchy with the outward trappings of a democratically operated republic. Those two elements have rendered the GOP as big an enemy of liberty and the pinko stinko pro socialists leanings of the Democrat party. Both the GOP and the Democrat party are Statist proto-fascist advocates and they are no friend to my liberty or yours for that matter.

ruveyn