(01-31-2021, 09:53 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: AOC literally just accused Ted Cruz of trying to murder her. She is a zealot. She was always extreme. It's a fools errand to suggest she isn't radical in the political realm.

My point, TRM, is that when AOC came on the scene, she should have been roundly rejected by democrats as being too extreme, but she wasn't. She should have been pushed out of the party, but she wasn't. Conservatives then used her as the face of the democratic party, which creates a reaction from a fringe group that wants to match that level of extremism. Not all conservatives, of course, but a fringe group. Now, Green will be used as the face of the right. You think the left is going to moderate or get more extreme? That's a rhetorical question, because we already see the left calling for censorship that is unparalleled in my lifetime. All of conservatism is being attached to the crazies. This is typical game theory escalation. The rational choice is for both sides to moderate, but that's not how the game is being played by the left. Why shouldn't the right follow suit?