"Extremism in danger of acceptance", feedback please

[steve2470]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/07/avlon.civility/index.html?iref=werecommend

Editor's note: John Avlon is the author of "Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics" and writes a weekly column for The Daily Beast. Previously, he was chief speechwriter for New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and was a columnist and associate editor for The New York Sun

NEW YORK (CNN) -- We are witnessing a wingnut war break out in American politics, organized on the Internet and fought out in airwaves and in town halls, wingnuts firing their shots from the outer reaches and strafing the common sense center.

Look beyond the sober skeptics and the principled opposition to President Obama, and you'll find an ugly fringe festival cultivating the wounds left by the 2008 campaign and pouring gasoline on the embers of the culture wars.

As the two parties become more ideologically polarized, the fringe is now blurring with the base while the moderate majority feels increasingly politically homeless.

A culture of extremism is in danger of gaining acceptance.

more at link above, feedback sought please

[Ozymanithrax]

1. Extremism has always been accepted...when packaged well.

This is not new.

[louis-t]

2. These articles always claim the left is involved.

Nothing has been so destructive to our country, our way of life, our belief system, our civil and human rights, our Constitution, as the screaming ignorants on the right.

[FiveGoodMen]

3. "As the two parties become more ideologically polarized" -- Hah!

The two parties are ever closer in their embrace of ongoing war, a police state, and plutocracy.

Polarized, my ass!