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[shadowkat]

Interesting link that I found on Facebook and oddly reassuring, teachs me not to make generalizations about people, although I already knew that - being surrounded by people who do not agree with me on everything has a funny way of keeping me honest.

Arianna Huffington's new book entitled "RIGHT is WRONG - or How the Lunatic Fringe Took Over and Made Us Less Safe": http://www.randomhouse.com/kvpa/rightiswrong/

Here I always thought Arianna Huffington was a right-wing conservative.

I think at least when we look at things historically, that the danger comes when we go to extreems. Too far in any one direction. You should never give one group of people, no matter how great they seem, total power. And you should never give into fear. I think fear has a tendency to bring out the "monster" in people, fear and frustration and rage.

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Yes, she was a right wing conservative back before that was quite so religious, narrow minded, and cut off from the opinions of the rest of the world.

It is true that no extreme is good, in England back in the 1970s they had gone pretty far socialist, and people of wealth were taxed to such an extreme that many wealthier people were leaving (Michael Caine wrote about it in his very entertaining biography, but he returned as soon as things eased up a bit later on). But here in the US we are rapidly wiping out the middle class, making the gap between the rich and almost everyone else such an enormous gap that it is impossible for the poor to hope to gain any kind of middle class existence.