I'm painted by some who know me as an "extremist" of the left. Because I have no hesitation to tell people, in person, at the post office, online, in the newspaper, that their positions are false and cruel and that the certainties they spout are not borne out by reputable, checkable sources.
Because I insist on FACTS before I'll engage in argument. Because I will not accept the proposition that private profit is the sole source of human progress. Because I do not think "God said it; I believe it" settles disputes based on replicable science.
And, since I am an "extreme left-winger," I've decided I might as well accept it and present the "extreme left-wing" positions. Because, as been averred so often, "both sides do it."
From now on, contraception, for men and women, will be free to all, paid for by the federal government. This is because contraception will be mandatory in the United States. This will apply only to persons having sex for the purpose of procreation. Persons having sex for non-procreative purposes will be forbidden to use contraception, but, if pregnancy occurs, abortion will be mandatory, paid for by a fund charged to the Catholic Church and Southern Baptist Convention. Because both sides do it.
All guns of any kind are hereby illegal. No one will be allowed to possess, purchase or use any firearm for any purpose in the United States. Because both sides do it.
Every minute of conservative talk radio will hereafter be balanced with an equal amount of Sarah McLaughlin and Indigo Girls. I'm personally sorry about that, but both sides do it.
Everyone wishing to vote in an election must present not only a photo ID but an Isley Brothers album (vinyl only), a tapestry of the Virgin of Guadalupe, a Koran and proof that they do not own or drive an automobile. Sorry, both sides do it.
There will be NO tax breaks of any kind for any person or corporation making more than $35,000 a year. All such people and corporations will pay a flat rate of 40% of all income. Everyone else gets free solar panels and can write off family vacations as "fact-finding trips." Because both sides do it.
Finally, a new cable news network will be launched, broadcasting 24 hours a day the information that Willard "Mitt" Romeny is a secret Catholic sworn to the allegiance to Mexico, bent on the establishing the New Reina de Mexico from Alta California to Columbia, that Rick Santorum's wife is a radical feminist revolutionary with arms too mannish and a butt too large and that Newt Gingrich is... well, never mind, he's doing fine on his own.
Because that's how it is. There are "extremes" on both sides, you see, and there's really no difference between them.
Right?