Gorsuch warning Liberals to Senate Democrats: Reject Trump's Supreme Court pick or else

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30. I'm a liberal and progressive by both personality and politics

and I am not far left by personality or current politics by any means, though as Pew notes is actually very common, I do support a number of measures that are generally considered well outside the mainstream.

TeamPooka, while educating yourself on the record and behaviors of successful far-left movements, I suggest also searching on populism, stability, western democracies. In this country, as in many others, we have both left and right-wing populist movements, and their undirected resentment and hostility toward and undifferentiated "the establishment" are both threats to national stability.

One's response to that, willingness to destroy what we have with the hope/expectation (but no guarantees!) of rebuilding better, is probably as good an indicator as any of orientation along the moderate-extremism spectrum.

(Bannon is a great illustration of an extreme. That our cities don't have more than a week or so of food and that most people have even less that of drinking water are potentially useful. That horrible reality is a tool people like him could use to "deconstruct" if it came to it. A nice big terrorist attack would advance his agenda nicely about now.)

Most people, though, want their children and grandchildren to be able to live their lives as free and safe as they did in the same kind of stable and prosperous nation they did. They want improvements of what is already proven good--giant national experiments requiring destruction of what we have and leaps into the void not acceptable.