Comments on: The Great American Political Spectrum. All 2.7 Inches http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/06/the-great-american-political-spectrum-all-2-7-inches/ The Tenther Grapevine Sat, 18 May 2013 05:59:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: Philosopherking http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/06/the-great-american-political-spectrum-all-2-7-inches/#comment-4774 Philosopherking Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:47:52 +0000 http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/?p=8040#comment-4774 What this actually shows is a desire to control the political debate and ideas by controlling what opposing positions there are. That is what should concern people the most. Labeling people as extreme is ridiculous because everyone is going to have an opinion and that opinion is not guaranteed to be inline with anyone elses. The best way to eliminate opinions you don't want introduced into the political debate is to put them outside the acceptable political spectrum such as labeling people as extremist when all they did was express an opinion that they had.

]]> By: Jeff Matthews http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2011/06/the-great-american-political-spectrum-all-2-7-inches/#comment-4773 Jeff Matthews Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:38:32 +0000 http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/?p=8040#comment-4773 Actually, Chomsky's answers to the first two questions in the link are reasonable. The rest seem more marginal.

The limited range of debate you mention is correct. Is there a single socialist or communist in our entire Congress? I can't think of any. Some may want more social programs here and there, but they do not fit the bill of communists or socialists. We have none. They are pretty much all regulatory capitalists. Our choices are very limited. Sanders and Paul seem to be the extremes.

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