Musicmystery -> RE: Please welcome Sanity to the Center! (3/15/2010 7:56:42 AM)
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"Far Left" gets thrown around here a lot. Seems to mean "anything at all to the left of me," and has no difference from simply "left" other than as emphasis on the disagreement. The people using it have given no apparent thought to "left" vs. "far left," just as they're "center" but have no meaningful concept of "far right" people to the the right of them. People perceive based on where their thinking lies, not reality. Liberals are going to see lots of conservative posters, conservatives think they're surrounded by liberals. Both are distortions of reality. When that left/right conflict misperception becomes firmly ingrained, we even see the perception here that the right is now the middle, despite the data showing 35% of people as moderates, as despite the logical problem the one side of the continuum has no extreme edge.
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