# Does the moderate left in the US need a more radical left **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 18, 2010, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-moderate-left-in-the-us-need-a-more-radical-left/525412 "2010-01-18T11:34:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 37
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-moderate-left-in-the-us-need-a-more-radical-left/525412/37 "2010-01-18T21:16:50Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > Actually, it was more of a refutation that such a ridiculous statement warrented. personally, I’d have spared the hamsters that last rolley-eye, since BG’s assertion wasn’t worth the that much strain on the system. Garbage. The American right seethes with bigotry, racist and otherwise. However much admitting it offends your desire to defend them. But you can’t, which is why the rolleyes. > [@The looming crisis in human genetics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-looming-crisis-in-human-genetics/519571/296): > > I think the moderate left, like the moderate right, are doing fine in the US, since they are already well positioned near the US center. Where they should be. Where the majority of people in this country are. In other words, reactionary, ignorant, bigoted near-fascists and religious lunatics. By the standard you are using, the Nazis and Stalinists were moderate since they dominated Germany and the USSR. Majority and moderate are not synonyms. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-moderate-left-in-the-us-need-a-more-radical-left/525412)._