[weegee]

This is Free Republic, an exercise in political extremism that, despite being and something of an anthropological train wreck, keeps popping up square in the mainstream.

FR is considered "extreme" conservativism, and not properly recognized as more mainstream conservative voter opinion, because the socialist utopians are so blind to believing that theirs is the ONLY way.

FR is the mainstream. The left thinks that Rush Limbaugh is "extreme" as well. The audience wouldn't be as large if it only represented a fringe. When one half pretends that the other HALF shouldn't have a say ("conservatives should be like children in days of old, seen and not heard"), they may be shocked to realize we DO have a voice even if the MSM tries to shut us out.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Right about the way the left views the World. They still subscribe to the Marxist class warfare theory that rich capitalists are soaking the poor. They have no concept of the economics of the free enterprise system. In their view only the Government can achieve economic justice.
The way I see it the only thing collectivism has ever created was starvation, mass murder and political oppression. Socialism is collectivism in smaller doses, and only serves to slow down the economic freedom of the free enterprise system.