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In reply to the discussion: Abstract thinking can make you a more politically moderate. University study. [View all]Pretzel_Warrior
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Abstract thinking can make you a more politically moderate. University study. [View all]
Pretzel_Warrior
Nov 2013
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it would be funny if someone was banned from DU for promoting moderate views?
Pretzel_Warrior
Nov 2013
#5
"hosts" are empowered to lock threads. community is drawn upon to jury immoderate comments
Pretzel_Warrior
Nov 2013
#12
lol. if you say so. this is a wild west board with no controls whatsoever.
Pretzel_Warrior
Nov 2013
#18
they have to get elected first. The last "extreme conservative" to get elected was Reagan
Pretzel_Warrior
Nov 2013
#16
Evidently you were on another planet during Dick and Dubya's Excellent Misadventure n/t
Fumesucker
Nov 2013
#28
what is your thesis for that? that it wasn't arch conservatism that broke this country?
Pretzel_Warrior
Nov 2013
#6
Corporatism broke this country and going along with arch conservatives in the name of
cali
Nov 2013
#9
I frankly didn't know who Diane Medved was until you highlighted her name
Pretzel_Warrior
Nov 2013
#10
why not say that in THAT thread and use this thread to comment on THIS article?
Pretzel_Warrior
Nov 2013
#17
I already corrected cali. The author did not call Tom Harkin an extremist. merely quoted him.
Pretzel_Warrior
Nov 2013
#23