Tracker1 wrote to Hatton <=-
The US has a roughtly 8% population of "Far Left" largely embraced by
the Democrat party.
The US has a roughly 4-5% population of what is labelled as "Far Right"
or actual fascist leaning, largely rejected by the Republican party.
That's the real difference. Roughly twice as many far left (Marxist leaning) that are embraced by one party, as the other extreme which
really aren't embraced by the opposing party.
Absolutely agreed though I wasn't sure on the percentages I knew it was
slim. Embraced is a good word for it as well. Platform planks that carry
names difficult to challenge like "Single Payer Healthcare", "Women's Reproductive Health", "Cashless Bail", "The New Green Deal" and others.
The ability to have a reasoned conversation where you disagree on anything
is completely gone right now as well. I've had what I call the "Theory
of Five" concept when it comes to political conversations... within 5
complete round-trip exchanges, 5 comments or 5 shares/reposts any thread
about politics will begin to pick up personal attacks on either the
orginal poster or one of the other participants.
Sadly that theory is proven right many more times than wrong.
Hatton
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