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Extremist parties get about 15% of the vote more or less everywhere in Europe.

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Feb 1st, 2007 at 10:43:48 AM EST
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They would get the same in America if we had a system that allowed for that sort of thing.  As it is, we, of course, only have the Dems and Reps, so each will, in general, absorb the extremists on its side of the aisle.  The Klan will vote Republican.  The ELF will vote Democratic.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Feb 1st, 2007 at 10:46:16 AM EST
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No. The Klan will vote Republican, ELF will stay home or vote for a third candidate. And, as things stand presently, if we draw the line to extremism at some common measure of anti-democratism and/or support for organised violence against political opponents, the right-extremists are a much larger group than left-extremists. For that reason, any equation of left/right-extremists only serves the Right's pursuit to move the center further right, defining ever milder leftists extremists (and ever viler right-wingers just hard- or centre-right).

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Thu Feb 1st, 2007 at 12:00:50 PM EST
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In teh Basque country there are no right extremists, and the 15 percent are "patriotic left". Among the youth, there are no skin-head, but "left" Basque independentist street fighters. The ceailing of electoral support for ETA's political arm has been 15% in 1998/9

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Feb 1st, 2007 at 05:13:03 PM EST
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