@jasper Yea, they did, abut 50% of them. Which I'd say is reflected by the top half of the image almost perfectly. :)

@freemo shouldn't the red bar be smaller and more to the right, then. Like, you know, actually, the right actually is extremist.

Of course, when you ask republicans, a lot of them are much more left wing than their media & politicians imply. The 2=1 political system are in effect there to suit capitalists, which have a right wing bent.

Like, maybe, when people get angry they get even more defensive of their private property and stoke reactionaries.

@jasper Well i guess it depends on how you want to visualize it. The point of the top bar is that the right in America is extremist and crazy and the left in America is extremist and crazy and there is little in between.

Thats why both halves are bright blue and bright red rather than a shade in between. To show the majority are extremists on both sides.

But yes I agree both sides in America are almost entirely comprised of extremists, certainly a majority. Trump is a prime example of that.

@freemo no you don't agree, that is clear from what i wrote.

And i don't think the left is extreme. They infact should be more extreme because that is the correct position, and the republicans can't be compromised with anyway.

@jasper Wait I dont? What did I say to you to suggest I dont think trump is a representation of extremism. My whole post was based on that.

But yea apparently we do disagree about the left in america then. I dunno, last president they had started killing off US citizens without due process, did nothing to stop the CIA spying on its own citizens and continued to perpetuate wars around the glob. Trump may be just as bad, but pretty hard to deny the extremism from either side in America.

@freemo Trump put a full page ad calling for the death sentence for the "central park five" who were innocent, of course.

He flagrantly ignores the emoluation clause of the constitution.

He encouraged violence at protesters at his rallies.

He attacked a judge for being mexican.

He threatened witnesses relating to Muellers investigation.

His wife purposefully put on that shirt "i don't care", wore an identical dress as a nazi in an Indiana Jones movie in Egypt.

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@jasper Ok, well since we already agreed some time ago that trump is also an extremist, and since we agree with all those points, not sure the relevance.

I'm not sure why you think arguing about Trump being an extremist, on which we agree, somehow acts as evidence that the american-left isnt extremist. Thats not how it works, thats not how any of this works.

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