Good Grief, Aren't there any Moderates here?

Anyway. I think you lefties, nimh, are so far left, you find it a bit too easy to equate people with some of my views with extreme rightism.

Clowns to the left of me
Jokers to the right
Here i am, stuck in the middle with you . . .

This thread should be retitled LM's ego trip . . .

Hey Miss Girl, let's you-me go fer a walk . . .

Or just a cute li'l Mobius loopy!


I do not think moderates=not strong views at all, I think that was a canard started by Finn when he had his li'l episode.


Moderate can simply mean not strongly right or left, for example - but one can hold one's moderate views passionately.

I, for instance, am passionately against fundamentalism - this makes me immoderate in my feelings, but does not make me immoderate in my actual beliefs.

when ehBeth posts I usually think -Mobius loop.

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Anyway. I think you lefties, nimh, are so far left, you find it a bit too easy to equate people with some of my views with extreme rightism.

LOL, its not all that many moons ago that you were still praising me as a reasoned, considerate, voice - when I had to remind you that we didnt actually agree on anything. That soon changed after I disagreed with you too stridently a coupla times ... and no, I didnt change. I still pretty much hold the same opinions as a coupla years ago.

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It was not that many moons ago that you were a reasoned, considerate voice. I wouldn't say you're no longer considerate, but if you don't think you've changed, you are mistaken. You may have just started sharing more openly the views you've always had--but I and others have noted a distinct change in the nimh of yore.

Anyway, yes I can see how the opinions you specify would make you seem open-minded in your own community. What can I say, I'm from somewhere else. In Holland, you'd be off-the-scale right, distinctly to the right of any of the mainstream right-wing parties. Would go for most if not all of Western Europe, too.

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And, that was my point. You seem a little Eurocentric in who is left and righ. There are other vantage points, which have me more centrist that you.

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You seem a little Eurocentric in who is left and righ. There are other vantage points, which have me more centrist that you.

but I and others have noted a distinct change in the nimh of yore.

I have a wee problem with the title of this thread. Every time I come across it while doing a search, I read it as: Good grief, aren't there any moderators here? And each time I read that, I go: "Huh? Of course there are!"
It's driving me crazy, I must have gone down that same path at least 20 times now.