Trump is not good for the U.S. economy.

Men who would sell their daughters as sex slaves because they enjoy the extra spending power that an immediate and fat handful of cash personally provides to them.

these aren't speeding tickets, folks

Jody-See, the difference between you and me is my happiness does not depend on the government, yours apparently does.

TDS spreading like a CA wildfire.

LOL! You guys are so amusing. See, the difference between you and me is my happiness does not depend on the government, yours apparently does.

I remember the far left of the early 70's and tailing off into the 80's. With the excesses of Nixon, Vietnam, DDT, institutionalized racism, the discrimination of women and so on, the far right slunk into a dark corner for a period and the far left surged in mass influence. Of course the left went too far (see Jane Fonda) and payed the price. They've currently all but vanished as a generational movement.


Sit-ins, tree spiking and well organized, radical, underground organizations of those days have been replaced by environmental scientists, environmental laywers, Social Democrats and civil liberty groups. They now work for more progressive policies and laws through the current framework of our political and legal system. This is your "far left" and hardly amount to the extreme left that many describe here as "drowning out" and wanting to destroy America.

There currently exists a progressive left, an establishment center left, centrists, center right, Neocons, Corporate Globalist, Economic Libertarians, Social Libertarians, the extreme right, states rights militiaman and of course the Fascists.

Of course given the excesses of Trump, the Koch Brothers, Citizens United, the Religious Right and so on, I'm looking forward to free healthcare the next time around.

The New Yorker
Turned Around
Why do leftists move to the right?
By George Packer
February 14, 2016 11:00 PM


The biggest story of the past fifty years in American politics has been the ascendancy of the right, and it’s a story of apostasy. At each stage of the conservative movement’s long march to power, crucial aid was provided by heretics from the left. Progressives recoiled from the New Deal and turned reactionary; ex-Communists helped to launch National Review, in the nineteen-fifties; recovering socialists founded neoconservatism in the sixties and seventies; New Left radicals turned on their former comrades and former selves in the Reagan years. Ronald Reagan, whose Presidency brought the movement to its high-water mark, was himself once a New Deal liberal. In the course of a lifetime, the prevailing political winds are westerly—they blow from left to right.

NATIONAL
FACT CHECK: Is Left-Wing Violence Rising?
June 16, 20176:21 PM ET

MARTIN KASTE
KIRK SIEGLER



Still, their numbers are tiny in relation to the mainstream political left. And, say experts, it's misleading for right-wing groups to suggest that the Antifa are more violent than right-wing extremists.

"The far left is very active in the United States, but it hasn't been particularly violent for some time," says Mark Pitcavage, a senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism.

He says the numbers between the groups don't compare.

"In the past 10 years when you look at murders committed by domestic extremists in the United States of all types, right-wing extremists are responsible for about 74 percent of those murders," Pitcavage says.

You have to go back to the 1970s to find the last big cycle of far-left extremism in the U.S. Both Pitcavage and McNabb say we have been in a predominantly far-right extremist cycle since the 1990s — the abortion clinic bombings and Oklahoma City, for example. And, more recently, racially motivated attacks such as the one at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, the mass shooting at a black church in Charleston, S.C., and last month's stabbings on a commuter train in Portland.

The return of leftist terrorism?
By Peter Bergen and David Sterman, CNN
Updated 12:28 AM EDT, Thu June 15, 2017

Since the 1970s, left wing terrorism has largely declined, with the exception of some more extreme animal rights groups and eco-terrorists. But these groups have largely targeted property rather than aiming to conduct lethal attacks.

In addition, there have been occasional instances of politically motivated violence from the left, including a 2013 shooting at the conservative Family Research Council motivated in part by its opposition to same-sex marriage. Fortunately no one was killed.

The necessary comparison of incidents of far-left and far-right terrorism raises important questions about political polarization and radical violence. Since 9/11, according to data collected by New America, far-right terrorists have conducted a much higher number of lethal attacks in the United States than leftist terrorists, killing a total of 53 people

With the excesses of Nixon, Vietnam, DDT, institutionalized racism, the discrimination of women and so on, the far right slunk into a dark corner for a period and the far left surged in mass influence. Of course the left went too far (see Jane Fonda) and payed the price. They've currently all but vanished as a generational movement.

Just tell people your a retired Highway Patrolman, you'll get a little more slack.