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varmint says:

Due to way too much Halloween M&M chocolate, I find I have more to say, after something I just heard on TV. Completely aside why is C-Span suddenly not listed here in the San Diego Cox Cable channel listings? My wife thinks someone is trying to slip something by us.

Anyway, these (well meaning?) liberals are warning that “extremist ideologues” are ruining things for Republicans by demanding more conservatism.

Okay “extremist” I accept gladly and “ideologue” as well.
But it’s my belief that most Americans ARE extremists. We are extremist for freedom and its supporting ideals, demanding it beyond what anyone demands anywhere else, in this third world, world.
I think, maybe seventy percent of us know the difference between assuming rights are given to us, by political overlords or whoever, and why that assumption is entwined by necessity into Fascist and Communist oppression, as opposed to our rights being “God given” as our founding fathers saw it in our Constitution. That’s why leftists try to get rid of God everywhere. The rights thing. The take yours thing.
I think many Americans are totally in favor of capitalism, and personal responsibility and thrift, and hard work and the keeping of their profits for themselves, while all enjoy the prosperity this seems to engender for the whole society, and even see some people getting rich as a good thing not to be punished, but benefiting all, with jobs, better and less expensive goods and services from the best, most efficient and inventive competitors, and as a market at a whole new level, for their own goods and services.
I think most Americans see government as being a bit of a drain on prosperity to a degree, certainly not as the producer of it, but a necessary evil, a dangerous power hungry parasite, best kept small, not swollen into a greedy, all controlling, “spreader” of wealth it can’t create.
The “extremists” these liberals are trying to insult and suppress are indeed the American people, us, middle America, John and Jane Q. Public, rich or poor, clinging to our property rights and all the rest of our rights; and not to be duped into class warfare that undermines us all. I say embrace your extremism and be a proud ideologue. It may be nerdy to be intellectual; but, in my experience the company is bright, individualistic, and funny and interesting and just fine.
If you want to demand more conservatism do it! It’s the only philosophical highway that means a free people, for however many more years, or centuries we are blessed, hopefully having enough, extremist, individualist, ideologues for freedom. You can’t falsely shout “fire” in a crowded theater. But you can by God, when your country’s truly burning down.