On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:04:55 -0700, nom=de=plume wrote:


I think you're talking about a rather extreme perspective. Certainly,
extreme perspectives exist on both ends of the political scale. In the
US, the mainstream political scale is quite narrow compared to the
European scale. We tend to forget this and try to lump people into
groups on the polar opposites. Most people are middle of the road in
their politics. If you want to get elected in this country to a national
position, you mostly have to appeal to the middle. That's a fact of
political life.

That's pretty much the nature of a two party system. The battle is
almost always for the middle.