The Extreme Left!

[Armstead]

149. Sure some of us (me included) get a bit carried away on both sides

But overall, having been on DU since 2004, I think there is much more substance to the criticisms than your stereotype implies.

I'm fairly moderate. I would simply like to see us return to the more positive aspect of what mainstram Democratic liberalism used to represent in terms of economic justice, civil rights, workers rights, consumers rights, and placing a restraint on the power of Big Money to protect the interests of the majority of the population.

But when it comes down to the issues that tradition is now "extreme left."

I do think, for example, that President Clinton deserved to be lambasted in the 90's, when he pushed for Media Deregulation and ignored those on the "extreme left" who warned that that would open the floodgates of a complete takeover of the media by a handful of corporations....Now we see that those warnings from the "extremists" were absolutely correct. A few Media companies have swallowed up almost every radio station in the country.

That is only one example of why some of us get critical, and perhaps strident. And why I called those who lunch with the Wll St. biggies and appoint them to government office and commissions as trojan horses.