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Originally Posted by Almighty Colin
The extreme left-wing are socialists and communists. The extreme right-wing are fascists and totalitarians. They have both had their disproportionate influence if you ask me; both in the US and abroad. I would just bet you view the points-of-view of the extreme left as "normal". Like "Universal health care", for example.
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Since South Africa is the only other developed nation which does not have national/universal health care, I am apparently not alone in not considering that to be a left-wing issue. Otherwise your assumptions about my political outlook are as wrong as they are irrelevant.
In the UK I voted Conservative until in common with many others, I felt Margaret Thatcher moved too far away from that party's core values, damaging the country and party in the process. In the US I am more ambivalent, because although I incline towards a lot of traditional Republican ideas, the Republican record in office has hardly been inspiring. At any rate I have zero faith in anything I would regard as left of center, if only because most such ideas are at odds with human nature to the point of being impractical. Truth be told, I'm not even a great supporter of democracy itself...