The far right on CB

[creekster]

Originally Posted by Tex

After a while I get weary of having my positions re-stated for me over and over in strictly pejorative terms. If you want to believe I'm a tongue-tied chain-yanking moderate-in-extremist's clothing, then by all means.

I would never believe you are tongue-tied.

What is pejorative about what I said? If you mean my short hand descriptions, that is just to make the point in fewer letters (in case you haven't noticed, I am typing challenged) but my more complete descriptions of your positions have not been pejorative at all and it is certainly inaccurate to say they were presented in STRICTLY pejorative terms. Based upon what you have said here, I thihk one is only reasonably left with the four alternatives that I presented above.

I am willing to believe you are what you claim, but what you claim is at odds with some of the evidence and so it appears to me, at least, that inconsistency can be explained by the four options above. Nothing mroe, nothing less. If you want to choose one, feel free, I certanly won't say I know which it is.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by Indy Coug

Given how far left socially some of the posters here are, it just appears to them that the moderates are more extreme than they really are.

You believe anybody on this board is far left socially? In what bowl have you lived in?

[Detroitdad]

Originally Posted by BigFatMeanie

Sure, I'll give you the same reverence I have for Ghandi. Ghandi was a moron who advocated that the Jews sacrifice themselves to Hitler. Thus, all the reverence I have for him (none) I can easily give to you as well.

Thank you for your kind words and charity. I am not surprised that you don't like Gandhi, since you are his polar opposite, in that he is a little skinny nicey.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by Detroitdad

Thank you for your kind words and charity. I am not surprised that you don't like Gandhi, since you are his polar opposite, in that he is a little skinny nicey.

LOL. Excellent.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by creekster

I would never believe you are tongue-tied.

What is pejorative about what I said? If you mean my short hand descriptions, that is just to make the point in fewer letters (in case you haven't noticed, I am typing challenged) but my more complete descriptions of your positions have not been pejorative at all and it is certainly inaccurate to say they were presented in STRICTLY pejorative terms. Based upon what you have said here, I thihk one is only reasonably left with the four alternatives that I presented above.

I am willing to believe you are what you claim, but what you claim is at odds with some of the evidence and so it appears to me, at least, that inconsistency can be explained by the four options above. Nothing mroe, nothing less. If you want to choose one, feel free, I certanly won't say I know which it is.

We've gone from two to five (I submitted one you dismissed), and I'll bet if we think real hard we could come up with a few more. Though I've been trained to be an analytical thinker (Computer Science), I don't feel this need to parse my posting style into neat little rows of pigeonholes, and then cram the Cougarguard View of Tex into one of them. In addition, I feel a little narcissistic by perpetuating this conversation further. If you'd like to continue via private messaging, feel free. Otherwise, I think I'm done postulating on the reason why CGers want to tattoo "extremist" on my forehead.

[JohnnyLingo]

Originally Posted by Archaea

You believe anybody on this board is far left socially? In what bowl have you lived in?

According to that graph Chino posted, mastershake's pretty far out there.

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by Archaea

You believe anybody on this board is far left socially? In what bowl have you lived in?

I'm just looking at the poll results.

[SoCalCoug]

My take on the survey results:

I've taken the same test several times, and although the results have been different, I've ended up in the same quadrant each time. (However, my recollection of past results is that I've previously been much closer to the center than I am now).

Also, I suspect that economic issues are far more esoteric to many of us, to the point that we really identify with "left" and "right" as they pertain to social issues (i.e., the authoritarian/libertarian part of the scale). I would think that the measures on the up and down scale here would be far more consistent with our personal impressions of the various posters.

[BigFatMeanie]

Originally Posted by Detroitdad

Thank you for your kind words and charity. I am not surprised that you don't like Gandhi, since you are his polar opposite, in that he is a little skinny nicey.

Charity is for suckers. Little skinny niceys are morons - always letting themselves get pushed around, not standing up for themselves, whining about peace, love, and all that other nonsense...

[Colly Wolly]

Originally Posted by BigFatMeanie

Charity is for suckers. Little skinny niceys are morons - always letting themselves get pushed around, not standing up for themselves, whining about peace, love, and all that other nonsense...

I like your style.