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To: Durus
Right wing extremists are like monarchists?!

They are often are.

You sound like you are off your meds...or need meds.

You sound like you know very little about history and politics. Do you know where the terms "right" and "left" originated?

44 posted on 04/10/2012 7:23:56 PM PDT by WPaCon
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To: WPaCon
"You sound like you know very little about history and politics. Do you know where the terms "right" and "left" originated"?

That's an odd accusation coming from someone that called "Tories" right wing even the term "Tory" predates the term "right wing" by decades...assuming you knew where the term originated in the first place. Even by using the term by it's original meaning (which of course doesn't make much sense in context of America but don't let that stop you) it's dubious to call Tories "right wing" as the "right wing" were nobles and the "Tories" were typically loyalists but not noble, and while nobles certainly wanted to maintain their own power they were not loyal monarchists by any stretch of the imagination. Still it strikes me as absurd to frame America's ideological divide with terms that were invented to describe where a bunch of Frenchies sat near 40 years after our nation was founded, especially if you insist on using the original meaning of the term.

I'm the ignorant one of course. Keep telling yourself that.

51 posted on 04/11/2012 10:11:37 AM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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