Who scares you more?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I purposefully excluded other options.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

The latter as the former is politically clueless and writing themselves into irrelevance.

[afleitch]

For a gayer the difference, based on history could be life v death.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

The Far Right, duh.

[JSojourner]

The far right. 

[Kaine for Senate '18]

The Far Right, duh.

[RIP Robert H Bork]

The far left, obviously.

[Psychic Octopus]

Both are scary, but the far left.

[Хahar 🤔]

Thye far left isn't scary at all, just amusing.

[Smid]

Both are just as bad, but a far right nutjob is more likely to have a gun than a far left nutjob.

[Psychic Octopus]

Both are just as bad, but a far right nutjob is more likely to have a gun than a far left nutjob.

The far left nutjob will be too high on LSD to do anything, now that I think about it.

[Earth]

The latter as the former is politically clueless and writing themselves into irrelevance.

I like this.

[Eraserhead]

The far right. The far left doesn't have any kind of political power in this country.

[Free Palestine]

If I had to pick between a communist state and a theocracy, I'd pick the communist state.  The far-left occasionally scares me, but not as much as the far-right.

[War on Want]

The far right. The far left doesn't have any kind of political power in this country.

Yep, and you never hear about them either because they really don't exist in large numbers.

[Psychic Octopus]

The far right. The far left doesn't have any kind of political power in this country.

Yep, and you never hear about them either because they really don't exist in large numbers.

Except on this site, of course.

[Scam of God]

The far Right, easily. There really is no far Left in the United States.

Moreover, on economics, many Rightists are to the left of the Leftists. I have precious little doubt that when the theocracy is finally established on our shores, its economic policy will be a form of Christian socialism under the mantra "do unto others". So given a choice between an economically socialist and socially liberal Communist State, or an economically socialist and socially fascist Christian theocracy, I'd choose the former every time.

[opebo]

Moreover, on economics, many Rightists are to the left of the Leftists. I have precious little doubt that when the theocracy is finally established on our shores, its economic policy will be a form of Christian socialism under the mantra "do unto others".

Einie, that's just asinine - there is absolutely nothing but right-wing economics emanating from the religious cabal in the US.

Anyway, obviously there is no left in american politics or even in american society.

[Scam of God]

Moreover, on economics, many Rightists are to the left of the Leftists. I have precious little doubt that when the theocracy is finally established on our shores, its economic policy will be a form of Christian socialism under the mantra "do unto others".

Einie, that's just asinine - there is absolutely nothing but right-wing economics emanating from the religious cabal in the US.

There are divisions there. The Christians are not by nature economically conservative; most of the impetus for the so-called 'Progressive' era in the first two decades of the last century came from the northern Baptist churches, for instance. This is also why Bush's "Compassionate Conservatism" played so well with that sort of voter, and one of the several reasons Huckabee's faux-populism caught traction with them. Theirs is an alliance of convenience with the economic Right, and it is a historical novelty - I have no reason to assume this novelty will last much longer, especially as the self-proclaimed 'Religious Left' (who are, in fact, right-winged) rises to prominence.

If the Progressives in this nation were intelligent, and they aren't, they'd reach out to the old 'Rock-Ribbed Republicans' and their like, and propose conservative-progressive solutions to mutual problems, as a means of forcing the theocrats to show their true colors. But they won't.

[opebo]

Moreover, on economics, many Rightists are to the left of the Leftists. I have precious little doubt that when the theocracy is finally established on our shores, its economic policy will be a form of Christian socialism under the mantra "do unto others".

Einie, that's just asinine - there is absolutely nothing but right-wing economics emanating from the religious cabal in the US.

There are divisions there. The Christians are not by nature economically conservative; most of the impetus for the so-called 'Progressive' era in the first two decades of the last century came from the northern Baptist churches, for instance. This is also why Bush's "Compassionate Conservatism" played so well with that sort of voter, and one of the several reasons Huckabee's faux-populism caught traction with them. Theirs is an alliance of convenience with the economic Right, and it is a historical novelty - I have no reason to assume this novelty will last much longer, especially as the self-proclaimed 'Religious Left' (who are, in fact, right-winged) rises to prominence.

If the Progressives in this nation were intelligent, and they aren't, they'd reach out to the old 'Rock-Ribbed Republicans' and their like, and propose conservative-progressive solutions to mutual problems, as a means of forcing the theocrats to show their true colors. But they won't.

Yeah, they won't because they're more intelligent than you, and can see that the religious in america are a bunch of economic right-wingers.  And even if they weren't, most progressives fear the advent of full theocracy more than they hate our present plutocracy-with-hints-of-theocracy.

[Mechaman]

Both are just as bad, but a far right nutjob is more likely to have a gun than a far left nutjob.

The far left nutjob will be too high on LSD to do anything, now that I think about it.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

The Far Right, duh.

[Vepres]

Considering many of the things a far-right person wants wouldn't get past the supreme court, the far-left. They're both scary in theory though.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I think it might have been the lil man who hit on this......the "far left" really has no power....the "far right" is another matter.

[JSojourner]

I think it might have been the lil man who hit on this......the "far left" really has no power....the "far right" is another matter.

The far right has vast power.  Entire TV networks, newspapers, Christian radio and TV.

 I would agree that the mainstream left and those who might be aptly called center-left possess power.  But the far left, none at all.

The exception would be in the blogosphere, where power seems to be pretty evenly distributed.  It's basically up to the blogger to attract his or her supporters.