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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow" data-source="post: 1290840" data-attributes="member: 7123">Wise, wise words.And no JB, the problem most certainly is NOT extreme positions.  One man's extreme position is another man's perfectly reasonable position.   Having a right to own a gun is an extreme position, according to many.We need moderation *on some things*, but we need (alleged) "extreme positions" on others.  Restoring the RKBA, eliminating the farce of the War on Some Drugs and most of the alphabet soup that runs this farce.   Eliminating the farces known as the "War on Terror" and Patriot Act, eliminating the federal department of Education, and making education of children a wholly states'-rights area once again - these are all the right ideas, but considered by many if not most to be "extreme positions" - no, what we really need is serious consideration of, and debate about, the RIGHT extreme positions, free of sound-bite-only politics and nonsensical red herrings and demagoguery by politicians and media talking heads.The enemy of this is the entrenched Republicrat Uniparty.  The enemy is lack of logical critical-thinking skills.  The enemy is lack of knowledge of the Constitution, particualarly enumerated powers, the commerce clause original intent, and the Bill of rights.   The enemy is party allegience - blindly following political parties and standard party lines.  The enemy is believing either party, R or D, can help.  The enemy is restrictive ballot access laws that keep third parties out of the running.  The enemy is the federal government being too large and too powerful, and the state governments being too small and too powerless, relatively.  The enemy is the powers-that-be.  The enemy is the big wall street bankers, the Federal Reserve banking systems, and the revolving door politicians who allow them to keep bilking the public.  The enemy is churches trying to make their religions part and parcel of, or in control of, the law of the land, be it Islam or Christianity.  The enemy is non-critical media who throw nothing but softballs at politicians, for fear of being allegedly unpatriotic or politically incorrect or worse yet in their minds, a "conservative".  The enemy is illegal power-grabbers via executive order authority - like Bush and Obama.   The enemy is unnecessary wars against invented bogie-men and "mission creep"  (why is it OK that 10 years later Bin Laden is still living, yet we're waging an unwinnable war against a different group from that which attacked us?).  The enemy is those who whould throw Mother Earth under the bus, for a quick buck. The enemy is the fedgov taxing us to death, so that we have to work so much that we don't have time to sit down and learn why and how it is that they're completely #@%#@ing us!  Just for starters.There are many enemies, but (alleged) extreme positions is not one of them, if they're the right 'extreme positions'.  Luckily, one of the few friends we have is the internet and the slow substitution of new, good, critically-thinking blogs and other news sources to suck the power out of the traditional media outlets like tee vee news outlets and newspapers.  And politicians like Ron Paul, god bless him.  I think truth and good policy will *eventually* prevail, but it's gonna be a helluva time getting there, with the huge inertial hangover of the 60/70s/80s/90s, where Blather and Brokaw dumbed down a few generations, coupled with a fast-paced lifestyle where serious debate was eschewed in favor of sound bites and reality shows.  The internet is our savior, I think.  Without it, we would have been doomed and eventually ripe for takeover by the next Hitler....What did B. Goldwater say - "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice."</blockquote>

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