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MisterP

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9. the far right's always been in strong circulation in the US--both Red Scares, the Lavender Scare

Reply to nolabear (Reply #8)

Mon Nov 18, 2013, 04:31 PM

Nov 2013

were just the beginning: the Dems criticizing McCarthy and Joseph P. Kamp for making the purge look foolish, Gary North and Ayn Rand, Heinlein, the NRA, whitecoats blasting anyone opposed to Our Friend the Atom as a creationist woo-sucking warming denier--these have all moved the debate and even opinion far, far to the right of where it was in 1972, 1980, or even 1988

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White Supremacists: Who they are and how they got that way [View all] nolabear Nov 2013 OP

There are those who thinks it is okay to be cruel to anyone or anything. Anger is their life, they Thinkingabout Nov 2013 #1

Thinking globally and acting locally. nolabear Nov 2013 #6

I sympathize with their plight, but not with their methodology. I fault the government for RKP5637 Nov 2013 #2

Amen. And it's just the opposite of what they believe would help. nolabear Nov 2013 #5

An actually somewhat sympathetic article DissidentVoice Nov 2013 #3

I agree with all you said. nolabear Nov 2013 #4

Have you ever tried talking to one of these "people"? Katashi_itto Nov 2013 #7

Honey, I grew up in Mississippi and Louisiana. nolabear Nov 2013 #8

the far right's always been in strong circulation in the US--both Red Scares, the Lavender Scare MisterP Nov 2013 #9

I often wonder why DissidentVoice Nov 2013 #10

ah, but there's also a huge temporal gap--and most would blame the Latitudinarians (who settled in MisterP Nov 2013 #11