Originally Posted by Robbie

You just used two examples of people who are sort of like the majority of folks.

Hugh Hefner is a fiscal CONSERVATIVE and a social LIBERAL.

The Pope on the other hand is a fiscal LIBERAL and a social CONSERVATIVE.

That's really the way most people fit in this world. I think the actual extremists who go far left and far right don't represent the average person.
But they have a lot of power politically because they are so single minded about what they want to see done.

Kind of like the lady that lives in my gated community who walks the neighborhood and "inspects" everyone's yards. If somebody has a leaf out of place on a tree, she runs to report it to the Home Owners Association. She simply has nothing better to do with her life and is obsessed with putting herself in everyone else's business.

You know the type.
Those are the kind of people on the far spectrum of the left and right politically.
They are the ones who sit down and write long letters to their representatives. They are the ones who print up fliers and pass them out. They are the ones who try to organize other crazies to vote in a block.

Makes them a powerful force in politics.

So it causes greedy power-hungry politicians (which would be ALL of them) to pander to these people on the left and the right.
So you get Ted Cruz & Trump types on one side, and Pelosi & Reid types on the other.