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Originally Posted by tbomachines
Inherent error in the sample audience. The 10 on each side are not representative of their "sides" as a whole, and cannot be equated as such. Furthermore there is no definition as to what defines someone as leftist or rightist in your post, and from whose perspective. I could go on. Sorry thats the academic in me
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Good points, all. We tend to lump the 'other side' as a monolithic construct when in reality, most of us are not fanatics adhering to the party line. Most of us are reasonable people who disagree on this or that belief or idea or philosophy but probably agree more than we disagree, else the social fabric would be torn and we would enter violent revolution. In this nation we continue to believe that path is far worse than the consensual path we currently trod.
I wonder where the tipping point is? It seems to me taht the tipping point is always closer than people believe at the moment. Take for example, Sam Adams. When he was fomenting revolution in Boston most of the colonies and colonists still believed that relations with Mother England were strained but not broken and that cooler heads would prevail.