Left-wing extremism on rise

[CDNBear]

Left-wing extremism on rise

It’s pretty much a foregone conclusion among the chattering classes that North America is being torn apart by vaguely defined right-wing extremism. That was the underlying assumption in media coverage of the recent United States debt-ceiling crisis.

Political science academics have popularized the term “asymmetric polarization.” In their studies they concluded that over the years political parties have moved further apart — they’ve become polarized.

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"Left-wing extremism on rise" Say it isn't so!

 

[DaSleeper]

Petros would approve .....

 

[SLM]

Left-wing extremism on rise

It’s pretty much a foregone conclusion among the chattering classes that North America is being torn apart by vaguely defined right-wing extremism. That was the underlying assumption in media coverage of the recent United States debt-ceiling crisis.

Political science academics have popularized the term “asymmetric polarization.” In their studies they concluded that over the years political parties have moved further apart — they’ve become polarized.

They needed studies to tell them this? The whole "my dad can beat up your dad" mantra has all but overwhelmed political discourse everywhere. The "news media" has all become little more than puppets, playing out "stories" to their fan base and those fans just lap it up. People need to start exercising their grey matter a little more, well, a lot more, and not just eat up what's being fed to them.

Left-wing extremism is asinine. Right-wing extremism is asinine. Anybody see the similarity between the two?

 

[Missplaced]

Suppose I were to give you the means to radically change your lifestyle, pushed your sense of "quality of life" up to the levels of your dreams when you dream about winning a lottery or some good fortune befalls you.Would you share your new found prosperity with others, beyond your family and your friends? Would your perception of the notion of "quality of life" change in any way? How long would it take for you to reach the conclusion that you're entitled to do whatever you feel you must to hang onto your new lifestyle and your comfortable existence?

Would this new prosperity change the direction of your life, of your children's lives? Better home better car better schooling better over-all perspective on life and what's important and what isn't? How much time do you think you might invest in considering the living dynamic of people around you, of people on the other side of the planet?

Whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, a Conservative or a Liberal {or NDP/Green etc.} would you undo the changes that were implemented to achieve your new-found joy in existence? Would you stop shopping at stores owned by corporations that enslave foreign workers and make a mockery of any sense of fair-play and justice for all? Would your concern or care about the planetary ecosystem, your drinking water, your means of production change for the better or just remain the same?

Globalization and "Free-Trade" deals are implemented for the purpose of increasing the wealth of the few at the expense of the many and if you compare the quality of life experienced by a factory worker in China or Bangladesh or Malaysia or any of the sweatshop industrial cul-de-sacs created around the world in the name of increasing the wealth of the wealthy to your own or heaven forbid the workers lives, would you ask yourself if your prosperity and your life legitimized what you're doing?

What politician or nabob would surrender the goose that laid the golden egg because it elevated the few while enslaving the many?

 

[BaalsTears]

Left-wing extremism on rise

It’s pretty much a foregone conclusion among the chattering classes that North America is being torn apart by vaguely defined right-wing extremism. That was the underlying assumption in media coverage of the recent United States debt-ceiling crisis.

Political science academics have popularized the term “asymmetric polarization.” In their studies they concluded that over the years political parties have moved further apart — they’ve become polarized.

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"Left-wing extremism on rise" Say it isn't so!

Good article. I post on a leftist forum in the US. I arouse what can euphemistically be described as heated passions. However, leftists are suckers for people who are better read than they are.

 

[darkbeaver]

Is it extremism or radicalism or desperation for solutions? These are extreme times well underway in many areas of NA. In the approaching grand depression it has been suggested that upwards of one hundred million could die on this side of the pond. Now that depression is an engineered event to preserve the privillege and hides of the very few. Do not doubt that they will murder as many as it takes. Now that's some serious expert extremism.

 

[damngrumpy]

There are a number of terms that explain where people are.
One the left or one with liberal views.

radical left one with views that would push sociieties agenda
envelop beyond the main stream ie with legislation or some
form of lawful agenda.

extremest Left These folks don't care about law and order anymore
than the righ wing fascists.

Now is anyone saying the left is extremist left more and more?
I don't think so I don't see people shooting others or tanks in the
street to stop an over throw of government.
What is happening though is more and more, people are demanding
companies see tigher regulations and a sharing of the wealth.
I don't even know if that is radical it more the ebb and flow of the
political agenda.
I do think the conservative agenda has peaked and people are ready
for change at home and abroad. America has a very loud vocal minority
who is against social programs domestically but the majority are and will
support medicare and other programs. Immigrant populations are changing
the Amreican agenda. No doubt about that but is it extemest? No its part
of change and like it or not change in constant.

 

[pgs]

There are a number of terms that explain where people are.
One the left or one with liberal views.

radical left one with views that would push sociieties agenda
envelop beyond the main stream ie with legislation or some
form of lawful agenda.

extremest Left These folks don't care about law and order anymore
than the righ wing fascists.

Now is anyone saying the left is extremist left more and more?
I don't think so I don't see people shooting others or tanks in the
street to stop an over throw of government.
What is happening though is more and more, people are demanding
companies see tigher regulations and a sharing of the wealth.
I don't even know if that is radical it more the ebb and flow of the
political agenda.
I do think the conservative agenda has peaked and people are ready
for change at home and abroad. America has a very loud vocal minority
who is against social programs domestically but the majority are and will
support medicare and other programs. Immigrant populations are changing
the Amreican agenda. No doubt about that but is it extemest? No its part
of change and like it or not change in constant.

Does that mean I can farm a good portion of your acreage ?

 

[Missplaced]

How do we measure extremism?

These clowns that are gulping down slop at the taxpayer trough have no ideological position at all, they're there to take advantage of citizens as the puppets of corporate agendas. Their sights are set on putting in enough time to collect the golden parachute while skimming what they can through expense accounts, favors to big business that turn into lucrative job offers later or "speaking engagements" where the administration and management of Canadian "higher-learning" institutions know that their participation in this scam is under scrutiny by funding agencies controlled by said trough-feeders. From a corrupt RCMP to Canadian spy agencies involved in monitoring foreign nationals and businesses, the only ideological premise involved is keeping your job so you have a chance of living a reasonably decent life when you retire. When faced with a question that demands analysis of circumstance involving issues with moral or ethical overtones, their strategy is to parrot the party line and avoid the burdensome task of having to engage their intellect. Of course many would suggest that "intellect" and "politician" don't really belong in the same sentence.

 

[SLM]

How do we measure extremism?

These clowns that are gulping down slop at the taxpayer trough have no ideological position at all, they're there to take advantage of citizens as the puppets of corporate agendas. Their sights are set on putting in enough time to collect the golden parachute while skimming what they can through expense accounts, favors to big business that turn into lucrative job offers later or "speaking engagements" where the administration and management of Canadian "higher-learning" institutions know that their participation in this scam is under scrutiny by funding agencies controlled by said trough-feeders. From a corrupt RCMP to Canadian spy agencies involved in monitoring foreign nationals and businesses, the only ideological premise involved is keeping your job so you have a chance of living a reasonably decent life when you retire. When faced with a question that demands analysis of circumstance involving issues with moral or ethical overtones, their strategy is to parrot the party line and avoid the burdensome task of having to engage their intellect. Of course many would suggest that "intellect" and "politician" don't really belong in the same sentence.

How do we measure extremism? It starts with those that blindly follow the political parties which most closely match their own leanings to the extent that they refuse to see what you've mentioned above in those they support.

And then it just gets worse from that point on.

 

[DaSleeper]

Matthew 7:3-5

 

[Missplaced]

SLM

Sad state of affairs {Canadian politics} isn't it!?

Do you think we find ourselves in this morass of ineptitude and dis-ingenuousness because we {the electorate} have been effectively disenfranchised through complacency or has the overarching secretiveness and unresponsiveness of our political machinery been effective in silencing criticism? I posted earlier that I would support a quarterly review and find it interesting that a minor step in this direction has been taken insofar as expenses review procedures. How far wrong {how bad does it have to get} before Canadians are stimulated to action?

 

[darkbeaver]

Matthew 7:3-5

By beam I'm assuming they mean building material. So we are condemning those with a bit of dust while the 2x4 stuck in our own eye dowent concern us at all. It's all very clear now. I have gideons new testa ment with me at all times now.

 

[SLM]

SLM

Sad state of affairs {Canadian politics} isn't it!?

Do you think we find ourselves in this morass of ineptitude and dis-ingenuousness because we {the electorate} have been effectively disenfranchised through complacency or has the overarching secretiveness and unresponsiveness of our political machinery been effective in silencing criticism? I posted earlier that I would support a quarterly review and find it interesting that a minor step in this direction has been taken insofar as expenses review procedures. How far wrong {how bad does it have to get} before Canadians are stimulated to action?

I think it started with complacency and the political machine(s) ran with it.

We are, as a general group, rather passive-aggressive. We won't march, en mass, on Parliament Hill but we will leave the former ruling party with two seats in parliament if the mood so strikes us because we vote out as opposed to voting in.

And we're diverse enough that it's never (at least thus far in recent memory) been really bad consistently across the nation. So I don't know that we'll ever really be stimulated to any big action.

Matthew 7:3-5

Is that directed at me? Lol, because if it is, you'll need to explain further.

 

[darkbeaver]

Don't you have a bible?

 

[SLM]

Don't you have a bible?

No, I don't.

 

[darkbeaver]

No, I don't.

Invaluable as a reference tool, makes a nice coffee table centerpiece as well, makes no sense unless you also have a revised theological library and two or three hundred years to kill. I understand it is available in talking book form.

 

[Johnnny]

Another bleeding of Kansas is on the horizon lol

 

[captain morgan]

Now is anyone saying the left is extremist left more and more?
I don't think so I don't see people shooting others or tanks in the
street to stop an over throw of government.

Syria and Egypt kinda put things in perspective a bit here, non?

What is happening though is more and more, people are demanding
companies see tigher regulations and a sharing of the wealth.

Cyprus confiscated peoples bank accounts (for those with in excess of a certain amount).

France has a 75% marginal tax rate on all income over 1 million Euros

50+% of US citizens do not pay Federal Income Tax.

Isn't working out too well for those nations right now, is it?..... So, what was that you were saying about 'sharing' the wealth again?

 

[SLM]

Invaluable as a reference tool, makes a nice coffee table centerpiece as well, makes no sense unless you also have a revised theological library and two or three hundred years to kill. I understand it is available in talking book form.

Yeah, sure, that sounds like less trouble than simply asking DaS what he meant by that.