2. The most dangerous attacks on free speech in modern American history (1919 Red Scare & McCarthyism) both had support from mainstream, centrist figures.
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3. Woodrow Wilson (mainstream progressive liberal) jailed people for their beliefs. The roots of McCarthyism were in Truman's loyalty oaths program & coddling of J. Edgar Hoover.
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4. The FBI's war against Martin Luther King was aided & often led by centrist Democrats (the Kennedy administration, George Kennan, William Sullivan).
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Jeet seems to pointing out the way in which power plays out in all of this. So wherever power lies, the greatest danger of abuse also lies.
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Centrists are responsible for bad government is what your long winded twisted explanation is saying?
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This is true, but not because centrism is bad, but because it is (or has been) powerful. Far left and far right (in US) usually marginal, and need to ally with centrists to accomplish anything.
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I think this is an important point; however the “far left”—usually understood to mean the Communist Party—has had significantly less purchase than the “far right.” There was one MoC who was pro-communist in the ‘30s and ‘40s. There were a lot sympathetic to Hitler.
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This is absolutely true. The left and right both have some rights they won't sacrifice, but that's not true for our pragmatic centrist friends.
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Get him, Jeet!
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