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To: WOSG
The good is the enemy of the best, and extremism is the enemy of effective political activism.

There is nothing more extreme than those that allow for, or through negligence or cowardice allow, the heinous murder of little children.

Opposing that is not extremism, it is simple human decency and love for the primary foundational principles of America, the God-given right to Life and Liberty.

963 posted on 07/10/2007 10:28:01 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (The Reagan Platform: Unborn babies are PERSONS, and therefore are protected by the 14th Amendment)
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To: EternalVigilance

EV, words mean things.

“There is nothing more extreme than those that allow for, or through negligence or cowardice allow, the heinous murder of little children.”

Everyone in America including yourself is in that category then. You are a coward because you hide behind your purist mask of superiority to the pragmatists who actually get things done, unable and unwilling to reach out and actually *do something that would be constructive*.
(Btw, I am willing to retract that if you can point to a successful campaign for legislation or candidate who went on to do good things in office in the last 10 years).
You are engaged in negligence because you waste your time here instead on convincing non-conservatives to become conservatives. result: more abortions.

“love for the primary foundational principles of America, the God-given right to Life and Liberty.”
If you loved liberty you wouldnt advocate legal interpretations that would undermine it.
You remind me of radical feminists who, when challenged fall back on ‘all i want is rights for woman’.
Well. Your position is NOT merely ‘opposing abortion’ not merely ‘human decency’. your position is much more than that, and it requires steamrollering over other concepts, it includes the arguable claim that abortion is worse than slavery (sure, *that’ll* get the NAACP on your side - not!) ... your position is extremist because you sacrifice other principles in order to advance this. That is the definition of extremist. nothing more and nothing less than a zealot who has lost perspective to the point where he will lose what he most hopes to win on.

When I said “extremism is the enemy of effective political activism.” I MEANT IT. I’m not just putting a thowaway line out there.

You twist word definitions like the marxists and your modus operandi is unfortunately too close to how they work. it’s time you seriously rethought what your political involvement is all about. You are hurting the very things you want to help.


977 posted on 07/10/2007 10:39:55 PM PDT by WOSG ( Don't tell me what you are against, tell me what you are FOR.)
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