Worst of all, I’m white and posting on a right wing political extremist website at four in the morning.
“Worst of all, I’m white and posting on a right wing political extremist website at four in the morning.”
Just don’t let yourself be misled by the highly inaccurate concept of the political “spectrum.” Meaning the whole left/right thing.
A more accurate dichotomy is: the statist view (which believes government solves everything and should be allowed to make any rules it feels like imposing) vs that of the traditional American (limited government and basic mainstream values).
FreeRepublic is not extremist in the values or principles it supports, which are merely everyday mainstream principles.
FreeRepublic is misunderstood to be politically extremist because its members are both intensely outspoken and more focused on the details of any given political matter.
For example, the reason so many posters here are taking a serious look at the Obama birth certificate problem is that we are more inclined than the average person to seek greater depth and detail than can be found in an online document or an “official” statement made here or there by bureaucrats and congressmen.