# Holding the Neocon's feet to the fire

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [November 5, 2008, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holding-the-neocons-feet-to-the-fire/471225 "2008-11-05T06:20:00Z")
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### 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: [November 5, 2008, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holding-the-neocons-feet-to-the-fire/471225/9 "2008-11-05T10:53:08Z")

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> [@3trew](#):
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> The idea that the reasonable position is in the middle of the two extremes just drives the extremes wider. The points above are all false, and were made to widen the gap. Anyone who used them should be called on it.

It’s not made to make the extremes wider, but to pull the country ever farther to the right. The Right stakes out a position way to the right; the Left “compromises” under the compulsive belief that the middle position must be the correct one, and the new center is that much farther right. Then the Right stakes out a new position even farther right, and the cycle begins again.

The Left has nearly managed to “compromise” this country into fascism. They need to stop compromising and hold actual positions.

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