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When Extremists Run The Government
When Extremists Run The Government
Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker,
Two can certainly play the “extremist” game...
Politicians, government bureaucrats, central bankers, spy agencies, and mainstream news outlets lie to us every day.
For some people, the previous sentence is patently obvious. For others, that sentence represents “fringe” thinking. For certain law enforcement agencies in North America and Europe, that sentence reveals potentially dangerous “extremism.”
“Extremism” is such a morally squishy word. It means nothing. It suggests that the average beliefs of the average person in the average part of an average town are, on average, correct. Should a...
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