(07-04-2019, 05:18 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(07-04-2019, 12:48 PM)TJBender Wrote: You guys do realize that there are as many moderate Democrats who resent being lumped into the "left" as there are moderate Republicans who hate being lumped into the Trump crowd, right? Howsabout we start calling the wackos "wackos" on both sides and leave the left and right labels for those of us who try desperately to cling to the center despite being surrounded by idiots.

Sadly there is only a "left" and a "right." The MSM certainly aren't going to separate the "radical left" from the "left" or the "radical right" from the "right". They can't argue from a rational position so they lump everyone together. People do it as well. 

As a Libertarian no one knows what to say to me as most don't even know what it is. Some think it means I'm extreme right while others see re 'liber-' part and think some weird liberal faction. I tell them to go educate themselves on the website. Which most don't because they prefer to remain willfully ignorant.

I quite enjoy the tribalism of it all. People really don't realize how silly they look. I just laugh at them. And you'd think after thousands of years on this planet, humans would have advanced past such stupidity. I view the right and left of this country as two groups standing on opposite sides of the street holding their signs. Whenever the power in the White House changes from one to the other, these groups drop their signs, cross the street and pick up their counterparts signs, then continue.

And good to see a fellow libertarian. As far as where libertarians land on the political spectrum, I suppose it depends on the measurement. If it's size of government, we're right of everyone. If the spectrum is made up of ideology, we'd be considered center as we could side with both the left and right, depending on the issue.

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