Stewart, that may be a comforting formulation but it deserves some inspection.
What one means by "radical" is slippery. Though no matter how you structure the definition you typically find the institutional measure of organizational strength (periodical circulation, affiliate elected officials, donations) you typically find the Right ten or a hundred times more significant than the Left. You may find their opinions equally offensive but it would be a mistake to see them as equally threatening. Secondly, what constitutes the ideological center in this country is significantly more to the right than it is in comparable countries (i.e., rich industrial democracies). There is generally no accepted explanation in academy [cultural reasons as an argument doesn't cut it for a variety of reasons- I could suggest lots of structural-institution reasons but I don't want to bore]. The reason I raise this is to suggest that what passes for middle-of-the-road-common-sense in the U.S. might not be all it is cracked up to be. Of course, as a person of faith you are probably well aware of that. Thanks for the opportunity to vent about one of my least favorite adages among those that are arguably have some truth to them. "Rev. Stewart Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It goes both ways both left and right. The Radical Right is just as bad as the radical left. They are really mirror images of each other. Stewart 08:40 PM 4/28/2007, you wrote: >I suspect that a lot of people don't have the time or inclination to >find out if what they hear is true. It is to your credit that you do try. >Many people who watch Fox do not know that they are right leaning, >sometimes radically so. These people are not stupid. They just don't >know any better, for a host of different reasons. Knowing what our >country has become, such ignorance is almost unforgivable. At this >point polls are showing that most people who choose to watch Fox are >right wing ideologues. > >In the last few years, even NPR has been penetrated by the right. > >Several of the media I mentioned previously are not out to make >money. They are subsidized by radical right wing millionaires. They >are part of the Republican noise machine. > >If you are curious, check out >http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2004/09/09_400.html Rev. Stewart A. Marshall mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Prince of Peace Ozark, AL SL 82 ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
