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Originally Posted by Trex
Interesting that people focus in on right-wing whacko's, be it political or religious. Which is not to defend such nutbars, but there are some very strange people on both sides of the spectrum. I just cannot understand why only half of them are routinely targetted.
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Because most of the time it is in combination with the US, and due to the enormous influence the US projects worldwide, US personnells and structures are under closer observation than for example innerpolitical issues in Germany. Because more people worldwide are affected by innerpolitical issues in America, than they are affected by those in Germany. Note that over the past couple of months I occasionally linked to essays on Germany, but these found little or even no interest, where as essays on US issues or cultural confrontations triggered much ore attention in general, followed by those on British PC issues. And fact is that the Christian right and conservative and centre politicians dominate the US stage, whereas a truly left or atheist political alternatives are unlikely to become a factor in washington, or the US economy, soon. Much of what for American conservatives is "left", outside the US still is considered as "centre" and "moderate", sometimes even "moderate conservative". US politics in this rehgard appear to me as being extremely polarized, maybe that is a blowback from having only a two-party system. Many arch-conservatives yell "Communism!" and "Beware socialsim!" at every opportunity to discredit everything that is not as conservative than they are themselves, but most often - especially in this forum - these characterizations are pointless and just indicate that the person speaking does not know what communism really is, and what differs "social" from "socialism". It'S black-white-thinking.