They're only "extreme" if anyone further left or right than the centerpoint of their party is "extreme"
The fact that the Republican Party has become significantly more right-wing in recent years does not mean that the groups that were already hard right are not extremist. It just means that more people are on the extreme.
(Focus on the Family, like the Parents Television Council, is also one of those organizations that conducts astroturfing campaigns against various generic, mainstream things they dislike. That, in my book, classifies them as extreme--if they weren't extreme, they could get real people to write those letters).
Also, the action the OP was about strikes me as extremist--calling down the wrath of God on a mainstream political party, demanding the murder of thousands of innocents living in the city the convention is being held in, because you don't like the party's candidate...if that's not extreme, then what is?
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Date: 2008-08-26 07:26 pm (UTC)They're only "extreme" if anyone further left or right than the centerpoint of their party is "extreme"
The fact that the Republican Party has become significantly more right-wing in recent years does not mean that the groups that were already hard right are not extremist. It just means that more people are on the extreme.
(Focus on the Family, like the Parents Television Council, is also one of those organizations that conducts astroturfing campaigns against various generic, mainstream things they dislike. That, in my book, classifies them as extreme--if they weren't extreme, they could get real people to write those letters).
Also, the action the OP was about strikes me as extremist--calling down the wrath of God on a mainstream political party, demanding the murder of thousands of innocents living in the city the convention is being held in, because you don't like the party's candidate...if that's not extreme, then what is?