Why are political/social moderates, Agnostics, and any other middle-of-the-road thinkers reviled in today's society? Is fanaticism now a prerequisite for respect in this country?
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8 Jan 2004-10 Dec 2009
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I have no idea. I think we need to start getting off our high horses on both sides and start doing what is best for us as a country instead of worring about political leanings.
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I think it's pretty arrogant when whole groups of people refuse to see value in the opinions of whole other groups. I forget who said this, so I can't quote them, but there can never be an intelligent conversation when both parties believe they have a monopoly on the truth. And I don't think that middle-of-the-road thinkers are reviled, I just think that the extreme left and the extreme right are a very loud group.
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No more so than at any other time in human history. In fact, probably even less now than ever before. People in the "middle of the road" have always been 'reviled' by opposing factions because they cannot be relied upon to provide support for one side or the other. In fact, there is a long human history of covert ops in order to swing such moderates one way or another in order to get them involved in such a way as to affect a political outcome to the benefit or detriment of one side or the other. Fanatics have always been around, as well. Extremists of one fashion or another who go to any lengths to get what they want have never been out of vogue. Todays' world, however, allows people an unprecidented ability to scream their collective lungs out and reach tens of millions of more people than ever before, with the media and internet and all. Heck, in it's own time, the printing press was considered a VERY powerful propaganda tool and was much feared by those in power for these same reasons.
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