Why does no one consider the "All Democrats are Communists" people as lunatic fringe?

part of the lunatic fringe

There has been billions of dollars spent on moving America to the right.

If not downright insane.

The Presidents and Congress are centre right, but the people tend to be, in most instances, more left of the administrations, no matter what party they are. They've just been brainwashed to think they are centre right!

Por ejemplo, I know at least two Texans who decided, after many long discussions, traveling around the country in a rig, and being exposed to the news all over the nation, that they were, as I had told them, progressives. They had been voting Republican because that's what ya do in Texas, eh? Their inner democrat finally came out, as did their inner atheist and various other things.

People answer those damn surveys and polls as republicans, and they need saving from themselves.

I often think that religion is a big part of that, too; among other things, religion teaches you to believe four impossible things before breakfast, and the ability to believe in the unlikely, the impossible, and the fantastic is improved. Believe in the mythical becomes something to strive for and embrace; after all, it's a small price to pay for eternal life.

Socialism and Marxism aren't "extremist", damn it.

And it should not be conflated with "socialism", which can be taken to mean everything from a European-style social safety net to a single payer health care system, which I would agree, the support of which is not extremist.

But the people who bring copies of Das Kapital with them into the voting booths? Honestly, there aren't a lot of them.

Whereas the crazies in the GOP, not only are there a lot of them, but they make up the wholly implacable nutjob base which ANY candidate must appease to survive a primary.

Thinks the Earth is 6,000 years old, Jesus rode a Dinosaur, and believes women should be put in prison for taking birth control pills.

Yes, clearly. There are "some extremists". But what you've done, here, is establish the classic "false equivalency". There is no false equivalency when one party, i.e. the GOP, has spent the past couple decades taking the express train to crazytown.

They consider the 2nd amendment the only right.