R U Normal?

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R U Normal?

Pretty much everyone believes that they are normal, even though a great number of those reading this column would believe that the above question should be stated: “Are you normal?”

But for a long time now, we are told that if we don’t believe this and that — that we are not normal. Just a couple of years ago, most people thought so called progressives were normal people. That feeling applied to both Republicans and Democrats. The last president that you really would not call a progressive was Ronald Reagan, but even he was uber-progressive when it came to national defense and he used that progressivism to bankrupt the former Soviet Union.

In that light we all now know that Teddy Roosevelt was the first president that claimed the progressive title. Furthermore his New Deal cousin FDR, who turned the Hoover depression into the Great Depression, was mostly responsible for the changes that bring us to R U normal today.

But consider the following statements.

This is a center-right country.

The mainstream media basically has a liberal bias.

Fox News Channel is the home of totally conservative ideologues.

The Tea Parties are made up of racist bigots.

Barak Obama wants to turn this country into a socialist-communist country.

The country is basically polarized into conservative and liberal extremes.

This list could go on for pages from both the liberal and the conservative sides of the spectrum, even though that definition of liberal and conservative has basically reversed itself in the last century. Read More...

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