Well, what benchmarks can we agree on? Start with the really obvious ones, like:
Far Left: Wants to abolish private and corporate property, turn all such over to either the state or state-approved worker collectives.
Far Right: Wants to abolish secular government, establish a theocracy that will conduct all governmental, military and law-enforcement duties in strict accordance with Holy Scripture.
If we could agree that these two are fair (and I suppose one could argue with one or both), then we start moving slowly toward center, suggesting characteristics or views that identify someone as “far” to one extreme, then once we agree on said definitions, then we could spell out our “problems” with one or both and what actions we take when confronted with one or the other.
I don’t know the works of Savage or Levin or Ingraham well enough off the top of my head to classify them. The little I know of and have heard from Limbaugh makes me view him as a chest-beating blowhard with a questionable degree of concern for accuracy. It probably wouldn’t be that difficult to alter his schtick from right-ish to left-ish - just change the scapegoats.
Can we agree that George Wallace (D) Winner of 1972 Michigan & Florida Democrat POTUS Primaries (Among Other Races) was only Far Right Candidate that year. ?
Do you mean exclusively among the Democratic and Republican contenders? Even at that, I’d have to read up on the '72 election to further comment, and I was hoping we’d take some time to better define what “Far Right” and “Far Left” actually mean before starting to classify specific people as one or the other or neither.
Walked through the room where my dad was watching it and they read Trump’s tweet about 100% of his foundation’s money going to charity. Now, they know that’s a lie, but they didn’t say a thing and immediately attacked the leftist media for reporting on it.
See, they’re not lying, they’re just uncritically reporting lies and then treating them as truth. Like real journalists tend to do.
I’m fairly certain that there are far mor Far Left Folks in Mainstream American Politics today than there are Far Right (By any stretch of the imagination)
I would guess that your idea of “far left” and “far right” would not be in agreement with anyone else’s definitions. If you need to limit "far right’ to David Duke, (ignoring the Koch brothers and their entire organization, Rove, quite a few of Trump’s Cabinet selections, etc.), you are simply asserting things with which few centrist or moderate people would agree.
The amount of stretch required strikes me as implausible at best, unless you want to suggest that “mainstream” American politics is significantly left-leaning, in which case I’d have to ask how you feel about countries like Canada or Sweden. If the U.S. is left-leaning in your view, are these nations full-on communist?
Fox is like the “gateway drug” to the true right wing crazy stuff. And Wallace might have been elected Governor of Ala. as a nominal Democrat, but he left the party in 68 to seek the presidency as an independent. His candidacy in '72 should be regarded in the same light as Bernie’s this year. He was an independent seeking the democratic nomination.
