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POSTED BY: Hjermsted
UPDATED: Thursday, September 23, 2004 19:54
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Thursday, September 23, 2004 7:54 PM

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Originally posted by Hjermsted:
I wouldn't refer to the European standards re: nudity as extreme... in fact, I'd call the general acceptance of nudity over there (in some places... not all) to be the moderate pragmatic shame-free stance everyone should adopt toward their bodies. The extreme opposite of pure puritanicalism (totally hidden sexuality) would be daily orgies in the streets which does NOT happen in europe -- not even in Amsterdam!

On one side are people who don't want to see anything, on the other are those who want to allow everything. Those are two extremes. We are in the middle, meaning we want to see as much as we can.

I understand your point of view. Trying to redefine extreme liberalism as being moderate is a typical liberal attitude. It helps justify radical oppisition to mainstream conservatism. Its like calling the number 80 the middle of a 100 point scale. It aint true and throws off all the math.

This is why the liberals are in such trouble. The Democratic party caters to those in the 80-100 range on the political scale and forget about the majority of Democrats who fall in the 55-75 range. Republicans may face a similar problem in 2008 because the most prominant candidates are all moderates.

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Only in a country run by extremists do you find topical debates skewed to the point where the true moderate position is considered to be an extreme. It just shows you how far to the right the politics in the US have shifted since the 1960s when the last progressive political reforms (at the federal level) took place here.

I disagree. I often wonder "Where is the Democratic Party of my youth?" I'm a Republican, but my sister is a West Virginia soccer mom. She's pro-choice, pro-labor, and pro-education. Yet she voted for Bush in 2000 and will happily do so again. Why? Because he's closer to her political values then the Democratic Party and John Kerry. She's blue collar who loves her tax cut. She's watched as the monolithic Democratic govt of her state (West Virginia) tried to shut down the state's leading industries (coal, timber), bankrupt the state education system, and run every single Doctor out of business. With every failure the party adopted a more radical liberal agenda.

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