Good Grief, Aren't there any Moderates here?

Why does every one keep trying to draw lines between "us and them"?

Well, what does a silly wabbit from Oz know about the loonies in America? And Osso doesn't know where she is half the time.

BBB :wink:

Family: "When you're older and have more of an idea of what reality is, you'll be smarter and you'll grow out of being liberal."

Sanctuary wrote:

Family: "When you're older and have more of an idea of what reality is, you'll be smarter and you'll grow out of being liberal."

Really? I've always been a sucker for the argument that goes something like "Well, I know you're way too intelligent to be a Republican." Just makes me want to bend things a little so they think I got a lotta smarts.

So, dlowan, sometime in three or four years when you aren't entirely busy, could you and some others work up a questionaire? I know it's been done. I am more interested re your take than previous formats.

I keep reading the topic title as Good Grief, Aren't there any Moderators here?

So, um, yeah, we're here. We're in the back, eating the last of the Chinese takeout, but we're here.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled topic, already in progress.

I wondered where that soy chicken went. I KNEW I'd brought it back from Kim Hoa.

I didn't realize the moderately modulated moderators had the key to the refrigerator again.



<sidling off to buy a new lock>

LastModerate, welcome to A2K; glad to have you here among the inmates.

I don't think we've ever had a left wing president. Plenty of right wing and a few moderates.

The problem is that most right wingers wrongly label moderates as liberals. And they label liberals socialists or communists devils.

They don't seem to even understand those who are fiscal conservatives and socially liberal. This groups may include many libertarians.

There is only one legitimate belief, that of right wing conservative, social and economic. They tend to be chauvinists of the Bush administration and attack anyone who does not adore Bush and the Republican Party. You can count on their attacks being in defense of Republicans and hatred for Democrats, especially Bill Clinton, whom they view as the devil incarnate. I never voted for Clinton, but if given a choice between Clinton and Bush, I wouldn't hesitate to vote for Clinton.

The only time I voted Democrat was against Bush and reluctantly for Kerry because I believed that Bush was a disaster for America. Turns out I was right.

Other than all of this, the inmates manage a degree of civility on these threads. If they don't, the moderators will zap them. I've been zapped a couple of times, but I'm still unrepentant as a 76 year old who has mellowed a little with old age.

BBB

There are lots of moderates here - it all depends on what end you are looking from!

Internationally speaking, America looks firmly swung to the right.

Therefore, on an American site, moderates on almost any other scale appear to many Americans as left.

Shrugs.

Agreed.

The problem is, the middle has shrunk considerably, but the two sides are not actually mutually exclusive. That is, someone who is "conservative" might be in favor of gay rights; someone who is "liberal" might be in favor of the death penalty. The either/ or mindset itself is a big part of the problem.

BumbleBeeBoogie wrote:

LastModerate, welcome to A2K; glad to have you here among the inmates.

I don't think we've ever had a left wing president. Plenty of right wing and a few moderates.

The problem is that most right wingers wrongly label moderates as liberals. And they label liberals socialists or communists devils.

They don't seem to even understand those who are fiscal conservatives and socially liberal. This groups may include many libertarians.

There is only one legitimate belief, that of right wing conservative, social and economic. They tend to be chauvinists of the Bush administration and attack anyone who does not adore Bush and the Republican Party. You can count on their attacks being in defense of Republicans and hatred for Democrats, especially Bill Clinton, whom they view as the devil incarnate. I never voted for Clinton, but if given a choice between Clinton and Bush, I wouldn't hesitate to vote for Clinton.

The only time I voted Democrat was against Bush and reluctantly for Kerry because I believed that Bush was a disaster for America. Turns out I was right.

Other than all of this, the inmates manage a degree of civility on these threads. If they don't, the moderators will zap them. I've been zapped a couple of times, but I'm still unrepentant as a 76 year old who has mellowed a little with old age.

BBB

One of the latest moderate ploys I've seen is the Gang of 14 comprised of both parties that basically stood up for good sense and cooperation which broke the lunatics of each party. This enmity is insanity, and it's going to destroy the country. I think the middle has shrunk considerably.