Re: OT: sponge burning!
Steve Lamb wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
>> I think you're lumping extremists and all Democrats together, which isn't
>> particularly fair to either group.
>
> Why not? That implies there really is a difference.
There is. Democrats have had a stranglehold on the center ever since the
Republicans ceded the right-of-center in favor of the hard right in the
late 1990s.
> The joy of the primaries is that the extreme side controls the candidate's
> vote because in their party they are the majority, not the extreme.
Just because the candidates are extremists doesn't mean the party platform
is, or that they'll be nominated.
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