what the extreme right led to

I think it needs a balance. Of course people must be allowed to have their own choices in life but not if it involves violence towards those who choose differently. That is the problem with either extreme. One is always seen as bad and the other good. On TV once, there was a documentary with little children and a teacher. She was trying to explain about the war in very simple terms and tried an experiment. She had to tell parents of course and get their permission for the experiment first. She stood at the front of the class and said, all children with brown eyes are better than the ones who don't have brown eyes. The children looked into each others faces, smiley brown eyes and worried non brown eyed children. Then it was playtime and the brown eyed children were all laughing and dancing around and even being quite mean to the non brown eyed children. After play, they went back indoors and their teacher when all was quiet said, well I am sorry but I made a very silly mistake! It is the non brown eyed children who are the best! Some of the non brown eyed kids looked elated but some seemed uncomfortable with this new information. The teacher continued with the lesson and they let the kids have a little informal break again to discover how it would change things. It was almost a reversal of the first scene. After they were all back in the classroom the teacher told them that actually,everyone was best,there were no better people. Everyone was happy to hear that. Then she explained about the war and how the same kind of bullying had hurt so many people because one side was considered best and the other worst.

Actualy we are pretty fortunate here in that the extreme right doesn't really get anything in the way of real political power. We do have a few extreme leftists in right now as advisors and one was just apointed to a deficit advisory board. They also seem to get a sympathetic ear with some in DC.

I think we could use a good dose of moderation on both sides. But what I find most disturbing about the right wing is the total lack of compassion. It's hard to believe that there can be a religious tie in without any semblance of the Golden Rule.

It goes both ways. The extremes of either side are not good and have big mouths with no common sense. On the extreme left you get fascism and on the extreme right you get anarchy. Neither work.

I'm slowly but surely translating a series of letters that belonged to my great-grandfather. They are in German, old script, from a cousin who was still living in Germany. They date back to 1922 and 1923 and talk about how awful the conditions were there during that time. Reading those letters I can totally understand how the people in Germany rallied around anybody who not only promised them a better life, but for some period of time actually delivered on the promises. Fast forward to 2010 and my online friends in the good old U S of A. People out of a job. People losing their homes. People barely hanging on by a thread. People with really sick children they can't do a lot for. Companies outsourcing jobs to other countries. The haves, the have nots and not much in between. And how easy it is to go from being a have to a have not. It can't happen in this country? There is a whole population of disenfranchised have nots looking for something, anything that will fix things. Sound familiar?

If any of this has taught it anything it is this...power corrupts. When teh republicans had the white house, congress and senate the power went to their heads and bad things happened. Same thing has happened to the democrats. So it teaches me this.. 1. We need a better level of character and maturity in our politicans. 2. No side needs a great majority. They are not mature enough to handle it. They turn into power mad monsters.

Anytime you have extremists in power, no matter which side, it is dangerous. But I do want to point something out - viciousness towards immigrants, homosexuals, a religion slightly different from your own, could lead to something awful.. The right is not against these people. They simply want personal RESPONSIBILITY. Big difference.

I dont like the extreme right in the US. I dont like them in Australia either, but I think we have far less than in the US. They are nutters. They spread viscious ideas about minority ethnic groups and other religions. We had a politician years ago, a woman who became quite powerful. She was extreme right. She was all for the white australia policy, jobs for Australians & not immigrants, etc. She couldnt face reality that Australia is based on immigration from many countries, including non-white, that our own indigenous people are dark' and that many, many non -white imigrants have worked extremely hard in Australia and greatkly contributed to our country. This politician ended up loosing her job.

We must strike a delicate balance between tolerance and affirming our own beliefs A country with diverse cultural imputs is rich and tolerant. The fallacy of multiculturalism, on the other hand, leads to ghettos and hatred. all the best urban

The dictomy of otrocities and justice are the history of the United States. The constitution has allowed an evolution of tyhopught and action mostly unparelleled in history. The constitution gives the aim of existence as to pursue our inalienable rights and pursue justice and strive for our best selves. The right are bullies who see things in one way like people who believe only they are entitled.

Yes, we do need to be careful and I'm always uncomfortable when one party has significant voting power over the other.

Reading what everybody has to say about the horrors that happened and could still happen makes me want to go to bed and stay there. I dont want to lose my freedom. Thats all Im asking for. Im not radical in anything, I dont kill anyone, I dont take whats not mine, I pay my taxes and I practice my religious beliefs in the privacy of my home. If we all lived this way, there wouldnt be any problems!!

Well I have a lot of things to say about this, I think first of all every form of extremism or fanaticism is good, for example, Nazi party were in one extreme and communism has been in other extreme, both have bring awful things to the human beings, we all know how many victims the fascism bring in the 40's, but the communism also have done a lot of harm, I am from Cuba, which everybody knows, the communist regime has done awful things, when I first abandoned the country, I really could taste the freedom for the first time, people here in USA don't know what is that, because they take freedom for granted, but I can tell you that you really see the difference, as I said before every form of fanaticism can be devastating for the country, we should maintain ourselves in the center, and don't think that our views are absolute right, or that we are better than anybody else. However I disagree with you about blaming immigrants, homosexuals and people with different religion for all the wrong things in our society. I am immigrant myself and I am a good citizen, I am professional and educated, pay my taxes, and there are many people like me out here, people that are willing to work in order to make this one a better society, and don't ever forget, that in America ( and I am talking about the whole continent), everybody that is not native American is an immigrant, the only one difference that you guys got here before us

I view both extremes with suspicion. I neither want communism/fasism nor do I want anarchy. Both extremes are intolerant of others. There has to be a balance; and yes, we must always be on the look out for smooth talkers taking us down one path too far or the other. Right now, I'm concerned that we're headed too far down the path to socialism. A few years ago, I was concerned that we were headed too far down the path to fasism. We must always be alert.