It can be. You have to remember the backlash to the DHS report awhile ago that specified that veterans, anti abortion protesters, etc. were potential 'threats' just a few months ago. Or how about the '90s? Remember the sympathies a lot of the right (ESPECIALLY a lot of fundamentalists) showed towards the branch davidians, militia movement, etc. and hostility towards Clinton's anti terrorism proposals? And that was just in the recent past, you can look towards the Goldwaterites, segregationists, and anti-New Deal types for other examples of the anti-(federal) government right. Obviously I don't condone all or even most of those views, I'm just pointing out obvious historical realities.
Which I absolutely reject. Merely because the Branch Dividians were opposed to the Federal government doesn't mean I'm their ally; if they controlled the central government, I'd be dead, as both an atheist and an "abortionist" (an ex of mine had one). I'm not about to hop on every hot cock that proclaims itself opposed to the current government simply because you're all lubed up. Our reasons for opposing the government are not at all related.
And why would I want to ally with segregationists? Segregationism is enforced by a (decentralized, local) State; and nanny-statism is nanny-statism, wherever it is practiced.
Incidentally: where were you during the Bush years?
Indeed. The left is outraged by the abuses of the right. The right is outraged by the abuses of the left. Only libertarians are outraged by the abuses of both. I shall remain unimpressed with both wings until the day one of them wholeheartedly supports a libertarian for President. I think we can tell that day will be long in coming given a lot of Republican reactions to a prospective Gary Johnson candidacy.
Indeed. I can't describe in words my disgust with the Republican Party.
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