Extremism Normalized: How Americans Now Acquiesce to Once Unthinkable Ideas

[woo me with science]

13. Great post. And more proof of it is that

serial defenders of extreme corporate, right-wing, neocon, and police state policies like...

indefinite detention, "kill lists" and drone wars, pre-emptive war as administration doctrine, spy centers for mining or surveillance of all phone calls and email without a warrant, internet IDs and internet-censoring measures like ACTA, military drones in American skies, coordinated violent crackdowns against peaceful protesters, strip searches for any arrestee, bailouts and settlements for corrupt banks, and austerity budgets in an economy that has already impoverished its middle class...

get away with calling theselves not only "moderates," but "Democrats."