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Originally Posted by Ustwo
I am not moderate, I am right wing. Do I fit the 'typical' conservative as envisioned by the left? No, but I'm not ashamed or delusional enough to say I'm not on the right. I also know I am not slightly right, but either middle or far right on anything that doesn't involve religion or drugs/sex (where I'd be thought of as left/centrist).
If I didn't know this I could not have a conversation with people on these subjects. I would make assumptions in everything I read and other peoples view which were not correct. If I viewed myself as moderate, middle of the road, I'd see true moderates as leftists and anyone left as on the insane fringe left. My guess is people really on the insane fringe left would be so far off in my mind I'd assume they needed therapy.
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This is all very nice, but it leaves me wondering what to do with all the times you've called moderate-to-left TFP members "loony leftists". I'd like to believe this about you--as indeed, I'd like to believe it about myself--but your record doesn't bear it out. I'm not putting myself above you here. I'm not saying mine
does, I'm just saying yours
doesn't.
See, I think pretty much ALL human beings (and no, I don't think there are exceptions) think that their views are right and true, and that anyone who disagrees with them is wrong and probably stupid. And since MY view is the RIGHT one, it's obviously middle-of-the-road and reasonable and centrist. And most people (certainly most SMART, THOUGHTFUL people) agree with MY view.
I think that's just human nature. I think to say, "Well, not me. Nosir, I don't do that," is the height of self-delusion.