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George Will's column today.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
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Good article by George. This morning I admit to being fascinated with how various and diverse authors have interpreted the AZ shooting. Many of the articles I have read this morning clearly group tea partiers with the far right and some group tea partiers with the lunatic far right.
ReplyDeleteOpen question to readers of this blog. Are tea partiers a far right group?
What does the term "far right group" mean? Is there such a thing as a "far left group"?
ReplyDeleteI will rephrase. Are the tea partiers, as a group, on the political far right?
ReplyDeleteI understood that we were talking about politics. I don't understand what it means to be "lunatic far right," "far right," or "normal amount right." Similarly I wonder if there is a "lunatic far left," "far left," and "normal amount left." And I couldn't even begin applying these labels to particular individuals or groups, absent some definitions and examples.
ReplyDeleteI will try to put my answer to this question in a new post in the morning.
ReplyDeleteThe partiers, and any group for that matter, are where they are politically regardless of how they are perceived. It is the scale that varies based on perception. Where they fit on your scale IS my question.
ReplyDeleteThe TPs have, by who they supported in the last election, indicated that they mainly lean to the right side. But I think they run all the way from the center left to the right.
ReplyDeleteMy understanding is that their primary concern, which I share, is fiscal responsibility. But I think that they believe (frequently) that it can be done by just cutting a few things that they don't like. I think it will require cutting some things that they do like and raising taxes.