Most people think of a political continuum like this:
Left--(Communists)---(Democrats)----------(Centrists/Moderates)---(Republicans)---------(Nazi's)----Right
While in actuality the political continuum is more like a circle than a straight line. Unfortunately I don't know how to draw a circle on here, but imagine the same groups listed above spread out over a large circle.
At the top of the circle you have the centrists, as you move to the left edge of the circle you have Democrats, at the right edge of the circle you have Republicans. As you continue on farther left, your path leads you to the bottom of the circle, where you find the communists. As you travel farther right down the path of the circle you find the Nazi's.
Along the top half of the circle, somewhere more to the right or left depending upon the individual, you will find the vast majority of normal thinking people. At the extreme left and right edges you will have the Ted Kennedy's of the world on the Left and the George Bush's of the world on the Right. Most everybody that anyone here knows personally is going to be on the top half of the circle.
But, if you go far enough to the left or the right, you will actually come around to the bottom of the circular political continuum, the place that my Grandmother termed the "Kook area". Basically, when you are living under the thumb of a Left Wing Kook, you are living in just about the same conditions you would be, if you were living under the thumb of a Right Wing Kook. In her words, whether its Stalin or Hitler, a Kook is a Kook.
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